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WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1865. 


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ADDRESSES AND PROCEEDINGS, 

INCLUDING THE ORATION PRONOUNCED BY 

REV. DR. BUSHNELL, 

AT THE 

COMMEMORATIVE CELEBRATION 

HELD JULY 26th, 1865, 

IN HONOR OF THE 

ALUMNI OF YALE COLLEGE 

WHO WERE 

IN THE MILITARY OR NAVAL SERVICE 

OF THE 

UNITED STATES 
DURING THE RECENT WAR; 

TOGETHER WITH THE NAMES COMPRISED IN 

THE ROLL OIF HOITOR. 

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THE CELEBRATION. 


GrATUM EST, QUOD PATRIAE CIV EM POPULOQUE DEDISTI, 

Si facis, ut patriae sit idoneus, utilis agris, 

Utilis et bellorum et pacis rebus agendis. 

Plurimum enim intererit, quibus artibus et quibus hunc tu 
Moribus instituas. Juvenal , Sat. xiv. ver. 64. 


The subject of honoring the sons of Yale who had served in 
the War, by a public celebration, was first brought before the 
Alumni of the College, at a meeting informally called at the 
Hall of the Society of the Brothers in Unity, after the annual 
Presentation Day collation, June twenty-first, 1865, the Hon. 
Henky Dutton, LL. D., being in the Chair. After some con¬ 
sultation, and comparison of views, it was here unanimously 
resolved, that such a commemoration should be observed upon 
Wednesday, July twenty-sixth, the day preceding that of the 
next Commencement. The meeting then proceeded to appoint 
the following Committees to take charge of the necessary 
arrangements for the occasion : 

General Committee in charge (including the Standing Com¬ 
mittee of the Alumni Association) : 

Hon. Samuel B. Buggies, LL. D., 

William M. Evarts, Esq., LL. D., 

Hon. Joseph B. Varnum, Jr., 

Hon. Edwards Pierrepont, 

Landon Ketchum, Esq., 

Hon. Maunsell B. Field, 

Charles J. Stille, Esq., 

Hon. Andrew D. White, 

Hon. Elias W. Leavenworth, 


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Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, 

Hon. Dwight Foster, 

Robert Brown, Jr., Esq., 

Hon. J. Hammond Trumbull, 

Hon. William W. Boardman, LL. D., 
Rev. Leonard Bacon, D. D., 

Rev. Samuel W. S. Dutton, D. D., 
William B. Bristol, Esq., 

Charles Robinson, Esq., 

Prof. Benjamin Silliman, 

Richard S. Fellowes, Esq., 

Hon. Eleazar K. Foster, 

Henry C. Kingsley, Esq., 

Horace Day, Esq., 

Joshua Coit, Esq., 

Glen. William H. Russell, 

Prof. Noah Porter, D. D., 

Prof. Edward E. Salisbury, 

Prof. Elias Loomis, LL. D., 

Prof. James M. Hoppin, 

Prof. Timothy Dwight, 

Prof. James Hadley, 

Prof. Thomas A. Thacher, 

Prof. Hubert A. Newton, 

Prof. Daniel C. Gilman, 

Prof. Cyrus Northrop, 

Prof. George J. Brush, 

Prof. Lewis R. Packard, Ph. D., 

John B. Robertson, M. D., 

Hon. Henry B. Harrison, 

William L. Kingsley, Esq., 

Arthur D. Osborne, Esq., 

Henry D. White, Esq., 

Hon. Luzon B. Morris, 

Henry E. Pardee, Esq., 

Franklin B. Dexter, Esq., 

Simeon E. Baldwin, Esq., 


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Committee on Invitations, (including the Secretaries of all 
the Classes graduated during the preceding twenty years) : 


President Theodore D, 
Rev. Jeremiah Day, D.D.,LL.D. 
His Excellency, the Governor. 
Hon. Roger Averill. 

Prof. Noah Porter, D. D. 

Prof. Thomas A. Thacher. 
Edward Olmstead, Esq. 

Hon. Henry B. Harrison. 

Hon. Edward I. Sanford. 

Rev. Henry M. Colton. 

Prof. Timothy Dwight. 

Prof. Hubert A. Newton. 
Henry D. White, Esq. 


Charles G. Rockwood, Esq. 


Woolsey, D. D., LL. D. 

Prof. Daniel C. Gilman. 

Rev. Horace H. McFarland. 
Charles H. Leeds, Esq. 

Rev. Henry N. Cobb. 

Henry E. Pardee, Esq. 

Prof. Daniel C. Eaton. 

Col. William P. Bacon. 

Arthur W. Wright, Esq.,Ph.D. 
Henry Champion, Esq. 
Winthrop D. Sheldon, Esq. 
John W. Ailing, Esq. 

Eleazar K. Foster, Jr., Esq. 


Committee to report upon the best method of honoring the 
Memory of the Fallen, by some permanent Memorial : 

Prof. Edward E. Salisbury. 

Hon. Henry C. Deming. Hon. Andrew D. White. 

Prof. Benjamin Silliman. Prof. Daniel C. Gilman. 

The General Committee immediately proceeded to effect an 
organization, Prof. Benjamin Silliman being appointed Chair¬ 
man, and Simeon E. Baldwin, Secretary. An auxiliary asso¬ 
ciation was formed in New York city, for the purpose of co¬ 
operation in the matter, of which William M. Evarts, Esq., 
LL. D., was Chairman, and Eugene Schuyler, Alfred J. Tay¬ 
lor, Sidmon T. Keese, and William C. Egleston, Esqrs., were 
Secretaries, and preparations were made for celebrating the 
day by bringing together as large a number of the Alumni 
as might be possible, before whom an oration should be pro¬ 
nounced upon some subject pertinent to the occasion, followed 
by a dinner, to which all of their number who had served in the 
Army or Navy during the War, should be invited as guests, 


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there to sit down again with the friends of College days, and 
celebrate together the return of peace and the brave deeds that 
secured it. 

Invitations were widely sent out by the Committee charged 
with that duty, for which the recollection of one of their 
number suggested the happy motto, 

. Cogite Concilium, et Pacem laudate sedentes, 

and when the day arrived, an unusual concourse of the Alumni, 
many of them with bronzed faces and in army blue, was 
assembled in response to the call. 


The following list comprises the names of those of the spe¬ 
cial guests of the day who reported themselves to the Invita¬ 
tion Committee, during the morning :— 


Class of 1818. 
Class of 1821. 
Class of 1829. 
Class of 1832. 

Class of 1835. 
Class of 1836. 

Class of 1837. 
Class of 1839. 
Class of ] 840. 
Class of 1842. 
Class of 1843. 
Class of 1844. 

Class of 1845. 
Class of 1846. 
Class of 1848. 
Class of 1849. 

Class of 1850. 


Class of 1851. 


Chaplain Hurlbut.— 1. 

Chaplain Adams.—1. 

General Ullman.—1. 

Rev. E. Colton, Christian Commission, field ser¬ 
vice.—1. 

Surgeon Cox, Chaplain Oviatt.— 2. 

Col. Deming, Brigade Surgeon Ellsworth, Colonel 
Pierson.—3. 

Surgeon Pratt, Chaplain Stone.—2. 

Lieut. Peck, Assistant Surgeon Wilcoxson.—2. 

Surgeon Head, General Parsons.—2. 

Lieut. Colonel Larned, Surgeon Skinner.—2. 

Colonel Weeks.—1. 

Rev. M. B. Angier, Christian Commission, field ser¬ 
vice, Surgeon Griswold, Assist. Surg. Rogers.—3. 

General Carrington, Lieut. Wales.—2. 

General Case.—1. 

Chaplain Reynolds.—1. 

Assistant Surgeon Benedict, Private Douglas, Pri¬ 
vate Oakey.—3. 

Private Baldwin, Capt. Farnliam, Capt, Horton, Lt. 
Colonel Mallery, Surgeon Mulford, Rev. B. Par¬ 
sons, (Christian Commission field service.)—6. 

Lieut. Colonel Crampton, Major Hastings, General 
Noble, Surgeon Stiles.—4. 


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Class of 1852. 


Class of 1853. 


Class of 1854. 
Class of 1855. 


Class of 1856. 
Clriss of 1857. 
Class of 1858. 


Class of 1859. 


Class of 1860. 


Class of 1861. 


Class of 1862. 


Class of 1863. 


Class of 1864. 


Lieut Bliss, Assistant Surgeon Dubois, Chaplain 
Dwight, Assistant Surgeon Elderkin, Surgeon 
Griswold, Chaplain Root, Chaplain Salter, Brig¬ 
ade Surgeon Storrs, Private Swift.—9. 

Capt. Bacon, Capt. Baer, Capt. Baldwin, Capt. Burr* 
General Harland, Chaplain Holmes, Acting As¬ 
sistant Surgeon Hudson, Private Jones, Colonel 
McVeagh.—9. 

Chaplain Eastman.—1. 

Assistant Surgeon Andrews, Capt. Bumstead, Col. 
Clark, Private Harmar, Lieut. Hyde, Major Piatt, 
Col. Rockwell, Chaplain Taylor, Chaplain Tyler, 
Surgeon Willets, Capt. Woodward.—11. 

Private Condit, Assistant Surgeon Cowles.—2. 

Private Chamberlain, Capt. Jackson.—2. 

Lieut. Col. Bacon, Surgeon Bennett, Capt. Hubbell, 
Sergeant Ingerson, Hospital Steward Magill, Sur¬ 
geon Mathewson, Col. Peirce, Capt. E. A. Pratt, 
Capt. H. A. Pratt, Sergeant Riley, Col. Smith, Pri¬ 
vate Stevens, Assistant Surgeon Tomlinson, Lieut. 
Wells.—14. 

Assistant Surgeon Brainerd, Capt. Dwight, Chaplain 
Hall, Major Hatch, Lieut. Lounsbury, Chaplain 
Lyman, Chaplain Rice, Chaplain Twichell, Chap¬ 
lain Upson, Lieut. Col. Watkins.—10. 

Medical Cadet Bradley, Capt. Finney, Acting Assist¬ 
ant Paymaster Foster, U. S. N., Lieut. Col. Gaul, 
Assistant Surgeon Haight, Chaplain Hall, Capt. 
Johnson, Chaplain Morris.—8. 

Acting Assistant Paymaster Higbee, U. S. N., Pri¬ 
vate Higgins, Lieut. Jones, Lieut. Kinney, Major 
McKinney, Lieut. Sheldon, Lieut. Col. Stanton.—7. 

Capt. Bockee, Private Bosworth, Col. Brown, Lieut. 
Ely, Private Greene, Private Hale, Corporal Hub¬ 
bard, Lieut. Johnston, Private Kitchel, Capt. Maltz- 
berger, Private McClintock, Assistant Surgeon 
Rowe, Private Sumner, Assistant Surgeon Lewis, 
U. S.N.—14. 

Acting Assistant Paymaster Bishop, U. S. N., Col. 
Blakeslee, Chaplain Doolittle, Acting Assistant 
Paymaster Emerson, U. S. N., Capt. Fowler, 
Lieut. Keyes, Lieut. Stimson, Acting Assistant 
Paymaster Wildman, U. S. N. 

Capt. Arms, Capt. Atwater, Capt. Bacon, Private 
Hill, Private Neide.—13. 

Private Scofield, Sergeant-Major Whitney. 

Medical Cadet Austin, Acting Assistant Paymas¬ 
ter Higgins, U. S. N., Private Parkman, Lieut. 
Porter.—6. 


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Class of 1865. Corporal Ewell, Private Gaines, Private Gaylord, 
Private Leonard, Private Merrill, Private Stock¬ 
ing, Corporal Treadwell. 

Adjutant Pierson.—8. 

Non-Graduates, (1866.) Capt. Thompson.—1. 

Theological Department.— Chaplain Jones, (1863).—1. 

Law Department. —Col. Wright, (1848,) Lieut. Harrison, (I860,) 
Sergeant Cooke, Lieut. Sprague, (1864,) Private Geis, (1865.) 

—5. 

Medical Department.— Surgeon Harrison, (1836 ) Surgeon Jewett, 
(1840,) Private Beecher, (1846,) Surgeon Bacon, (1853,) As¬ 
sistant Surgeon Bulkeley, (1856,) Surgeon Dibble, (1859,) 
Surgeon Olmstead, (1861,) Surgeon Terry, (1862,) Corporal 
Durrie, (1865,) Capt. DuBois, (1866.)—10. 

Department of Philosophy and the Arts. —Lieut. Col Weld, 
(1852,) Assistant Surgeon Dubois, (1859,) Capt. Coddington, 
(I860,) Private M. Van Harlingen, (1863,) Ensign TreadwelL, 
(1865,) Private McDonald, (Undergraduate.)—6. # 

The customary Alumni Meeting in Graduates’ Hall, was held 
at nine o’clock, A. M., when William M. Evarts, Esq., was 
elected President of the Day, and Gen. William H. Russell, 
Chief Marshal. Immediately upon its adjournment, the 
Alumni marched in processsion, led by Noll’s Orchestral Band 
of New York, which furnished the music for the day, to the 
Center Church. Here, prayer having been offered by the 
Reverend John R. Adams, D. D., a Chaplain of long service 
in the field, the Reverend Horace Bushnell, D. D., of Hart¬ 
ford, pronounced the following Oration, before a crowded audi¬ 
tory, the galleries being filled with ladies, while the Alumni 
occupied the body of the house. 


* The whole number of the guests of the day, whose arrival was made known 
to the Invitation Committee, and whose names are given above, is one hundred 
and seventy-five. 



ORATION. 


OUR OBLIGATIONS TO THE DEAD. 

Brethren of the Alumni :— 

To pay fit honors to our dead is one of the fraternal and 
customary offices of these anniversaries ; never so nearly an 
office of high public duty as now, when we find the roll of our 
membership starred with so many names made sacred by the 
giving up of life for the Republic. We knew them here in 
terms of cherished intimacy ; some of them so lately that we 
scarcely seem to have been parted from them ; others of them 
we have met here many times, returning to renew, with us, their 
tender and pleasant recollections of the past; hut we meet 
them here no more—they are gone to make up the hecatomb 
offered for their and our great nation’s life. Hence it has 
been specially desired on this occasion, that we honor their 
heroic sacrifice by some fit remembrance. Had the call of 
your committee been different, I should certainly not have 
responded. 

And yet, over-willing as I have been to assume an office so 
entirely grateful, it is a matter none the less difficult to settle 
on the best and most proper way of doing the honors intended. 
I think you will agree with me, that it cannot be satisfactorily 
done by preparing a string of obituary notices of our dead ; 
that would be more appropriate to some published document, 
and no wise appropriate to a public discourse. Besides, to 
withdraw them from the vaster roll of the dead, in which it 

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was their honor to die, and set them in a circle of mere 
literary clanship, bounding our testimony of homage by the 
accident of their matriculation here with us, would be rather 
to claim our honors in them, than to pay them honors due to 
themselves. We should seem not even to appreciate the grand 
public motive to which they gave up their life. They honored 
us in dying for their country, and we fitly honor them, when 
we class them with the glorious brotherhood in which they fell. 
Reserving it therefore as my privilege, to make such reference 
specially to them as befits the occasion, I propose a more 
general subject, in which due honors may be paid to all, viz : 
The obligations ive owe to the dead —all the dead who have 
fallen in this gigantic and fearfully bloody war. 

There are various ways in which a people, delivered by 
great struggles of war, may endeavor to pay their testimony 
of honor to the men who have fallen. They may do it by 
chanting requiems for the repose of their souls ; which, though 
it may not have any great effect in that precise way, is at least 
an act of implied homage and gratitude. The same thing is 
attempted more frequently by covering the dead benefactors 
and heroes with tributes of eulogy ; only here it is a dis¬ 
appointment, that none but a few leaders are commemorated, 
while the undistinguished multitude, who jeoparded their lives 
most freely, are passed by and forgot. The best thing there¬ 
fore to be done, worthiest both of the dead and the living, is, 
it seems to me, that which I now propose—to recount our 
obligations to the dead in general; what they have done for 
for us, what they have earned at our hands, and what they 
have put it on us to do for the dear common country to which 
they sold their life. 

First of all, then, we are to see that we give them their due 
share of the victory and the honors of victory. For it is one of 


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our natural infirmities, against which we need to he carefully 
and even jealously guarded, that we fall so easily into the 
impression, which puts them in the class of defeat and failure. 
Are they not dead ? And who shall count the dead as being in 
the roll of victory ? But the living return to greet us and be 
with us, and we listen eagerly to the story of the scenes in 
which they bore their part. We enjoy their exultations and 
exult with them. Their great leaders also return, to be 
crowded by our ovations, and deafened by our applauses. 
These, these, we too readily say, are the victors, considering no 
more the dead but with a certain feeling close akin to pity. If, 
sometime, the story of their fall is told us, the spot described, 
far in front or on the rampart's edge, where they left their 
bodies, and the fatal gashes at which their soul went out, we 
listen with sympathy and sad respect, but we do not find how 
to count them in the lists of victory, and scarcely to include 
them in the general victory of the cause. All our associations 
run this way, and before we know it we have them down, most 
likely, on the losing side of the struggle. They belong, we 
fancy, to the waste of victory—sad waste indeed, but not in 
any sense a part of victory itself. No, no, ye living ; it is the 
ammunition spent that gains the battle, not the ammunition 
brought off from the field. These dead are the spent ammu¬ 
nition of the war, and theirs above all is the victory. Upon 
what indeed turned the question of the war itself, but on the 
dead that could be furnished; or, what is no wise different, 
the life that could be contributed for that kind of expenditure. 
These grim heroes therefore, dead and dumb, that have strewed 
so many fields with their bodies—these are the price and pur¬ 
chase money of our triumph. A great many of us were ready 
to live, but these offered themselves, in a sense, to die, and by 
their cost the victory is won. 


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Nay, it is not quite enough, if we will know exactly who is 
entitled to a part in these honors, that we only remember 
these dead of the war. Buried generations hack of them 
were also present in it almost as truly as they. Thus, if we 
take the two most honored leaders, Grant and Sherman, who, 
besides the general victory they have gained for the cause, 
have won their sublime distinction as the greatest living com¬ 
manders of the world, it will be impossible to think of them 
as having made or begotten their own lofty endowments. All 
great heroic men have seeds and roots, far back it may be, out 
of which they spring, and apart from which they could not 
spring at all; a sublime fatherhood and motherhood, in whose 
blood and life, however undistinguished, victory was long ago 
distilling, for the great day to come of their people and nation. 
They knew it not; they sleep in graves, it may be, now for¬ 
got ; but their huge-grown, manful temperament, the fights 
they waged and won in life’s private battle, the lofty prayer- 
impulse which made inspirations their element, their brave 
self-retaining patience, and the orderly vigor of their house¬ 
hold command were breeding in and in, to be issued finally in 
a hero sonship, and by that fight themselves out into the 
grandest victory for right and law the future ages shall know. 
So that if we ask who are the dead that are to be counted in 
our victory, we must pierce the sod of Wethersfield and Strat¬ 
ford, of Woodbury and Norwalk, and find where the Honor¬ 
able Sherman, the Deacon Sherman, the Judge Sherman, and 
all the line of the Shermans and their victor wives and 
mothers lie ; and then, if Ve can guess what they were and 
how they lived, we shall know who fought the great campaigns 
on Atlanta, Savannah and Raleigh. So again, if we begin at 
the good Deacon Grant in Mr. Warham’s church at Windsor, 
descending to the historic Matthew Grant of Tolland—fellow 


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scout with Putnam and captain of a French war company,— 
then to the now living Joel Root Grant, who removed to 
Pennsylvania, afterwards also to Ohio, afterwards finally, I 
believe, to Illinois—whose wanderings appear to be commemo¬ 
rated in the classic name of Ulysses—we shall see by what 
tough flanking processes of life and family the great Lieutenant- 
General was preparing, who should turn the front of Vicks¬ 
burg, and march by Lee and Richmond, and cut off, by the 
rear, even the Great Rebellion itself. 0, if we could see it, 
how long and grandly were the victories of these great souls 
preparing ! The chief thing was the making of the souls 
themselves, and when that was done the successes came of 
course. 

And from these two examples you may see by what lines of 
private worth, and public virtue, and more than noble blood, 
the stock of our great patriotic armies has been furnished. 
For how grand a pitch of devotion has been often shown by 
the private soldiers of these armies. There was never em¬ 
bodied, in all the armies of the world, a public inspiration so 
remarkable. Really the grandest heroes are these, who have 
neither had, nor wanted, any motive but the salvation of the 
Republic. And do you think there was nothing back of them 
to make them what they were ? What but an immense out¬ 
growth were they of whole ages of worth, intelligence, and 
public devotion ? And for what more honorable distinction 
should we here and always pay our thanks to God P 0, it is 
these generations of buried worth that have been fighting in 
our battles, and if we will pay our obligations to the dead, it 
is this nameless fatherhood and motherhood, before whose 
memory we shall bare our head, in the deepest homage and 
tenderest reverence. 

Still it is not my intention to occupy you with the part 


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fulfilled by these remoter generations of the past, but with the 
more general remembrance of such as have fallen in the war 
itself. I only refer you to these, to show you how very trivial 
and weak a thing it is, if we speak of our victories, to imagine 
that only such as come out of the war alive are entitled to 
credit and reverence on account of them. 

But I pass to a point where the dead obtain a right of 
honor that is more distinctive, and belongs not to the living at 
all; or if, in certain things, partly to the living, yet only to 
them in some less sacred and prominent way. I speak here of 
the fact that, according to the true economy of the world, so 
many of its grandest and most noble benefits have and are to 
have a tragic origin, and to come as outgrowths only of blood. 
Whether it be that sin is in the world, and the whole creation 
groaneth in the necessary throes of its demonized life, we need 
not stay to inquire ; for sin would be in the world and the 
demonizing spell would be upon it. Such was, and was to be, 
and is, the economy of it. Common life, the world's great 
life, is in the large way tragic. As the mild benignity and 
peaceful reign of Christ begins at the principle, u without 
shedding of blood, there is no remission," so, without shed¬ 
ding of blood, there is almost nothing great in the world, or to 
be expected for it. For the life is in the blood—all life—and 
it is put flowing within, partly for the serving of a nobler use 
in flowing out, on fit occasion, to quicken and consecrate what¬ 
ever it touches. God could not plan a Peace-Society world, 
to live in the sweet amenities, and grow great and happy by 
simply thriving and feeding. There must be bleeding also. 
Sentiments must be born that are children of thunder ; there 
must be heroes and heroic nationalities, and martyr testimo¬ 
nies, else there will be only mediocrities, insipidities, common¬ 
place men, and common-place writings, a sordid and mean 


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peace, liberties without a pulse, and epics that are only 
eclogues. 

And here it is that the dead of our war have done for us a 
work so precious, which is all their own—they have bled for 
us; and by this simple sacrifice of blood they have opened for 
us a new great chapter of life. We were living before in trade 
and commerce, bragging of our new cities and our census 
reports, and our liberties that were also consciously mocked 
by our hypocrisies, having only the possibilities of great inspi¬ 
rations and not the fact, materialized more and more evidently 
in our habits and sentiments, strong principally in our dis¬ 
cords and the impetuosity of our projects for money. But 
the blood of our dead has touched our souls with thoughts 
more serious and deeper, and begotten, as I trust, somewhat 
of that high-bred inspiration which is itself the possibility of 
genius, and of a true public greatness. Saying nothing then 
for the present, of our victors and victories, let us see what 
we have gotten by the blood of our slain. 

And, first of all, in this blood our unity is cemented and 
forever sanctified. Something was gained for us here, at the 
beginning, by our sacrifices in the fields of the Revolution— 
something, but not all. Had it not been for this common 
bleeding of the States in their common cause, it is doubtful 
whether our Constitution could ever have been carried. The 
discords of the Convention were imminent, as we know, and 
were only surmounted by compromises that left them still 
existing. They were simply kennelled under the Constitution 
and not reconciled ; as began to be evident shortly in the doc¬ 
trines of State sovereignty, and State nullification, here and 
there asserted. We had not bled enough, as yet, to merge our 
colonial distinctions and make us a proper nation. Our bat¬ 
tles had not been upon a scale to thoroughly mass our feeling, 


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or gulf us in a common cause and life. Against the State- 
rights doctrines, the logic of our Constitution was decisive, 
and they were refuted a thousand times over. But such 
things do not go by argument—no argument transmutes a dis¬ 
cord, or composes a unity where there was none. The matter 
wanted here was blood, not logic, and this we now have on a 
scale large enough to meet our necessity. True it is blood on 
one side, and blood on the other—all the better for that; for had 
bleeding kills, and righteous bleeding sanctifies and quickens. 
The State-rights doctrine is now fairly hied away, and the 
unity died for, in a way of such prodigious devotion, is forever 
sealed and glorified. 

Nor let any one he concerned for the sectional relations of 
defeat and victory. For there has all the while been a grand, 
suppressed sentiment of country in the general field of the 
rebellion, which is bursting up already into sovereignty out of 
the soil itself. There is even a chance that this sentiment 
may blaze into a passion hot enough to utterly burn up what¬ 
ever fire itself can master. At all events it will put under 
the ban, from this time forth, all such instigators of treason 
as could turn their peaceful States into hells of desolation, and 
force even patriotic citizens to fight against the homage they 
bore their country. However this may he, the seeds of a true 
public life are in the soil, waiting to grow apace. It will he as 
when the flood of Noah receded. For the righteous man per¬ 
chance began to bethink himself shortly, and to be troubled, 
that he took no seeds into the ark; but no sooner were the 
waters down, than the oaks, and palms, and all great trees, 
sprung into life, under the dead old trunks of the forest, and 
the green world reappeared even greener than before ; only the 
sections had all received new seeds, by a floating exchange, 
and put them forthwith into growth together with their own. 


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So the unity now to be developed, after this war-deluge is 
over, is like even to be more cordial than it ever could have 
been. It will be no more thought of as a mere human com¬ 
pact, or composition, always to be debated by the letter, but it 
will be that bond of common life which God has touched with 
blood ; a sacredly heroic, Providentially tragic, unity, where 
God's cherubim stand guard over grudges, and hates, and 
remembered jealousies, and the sense of nationality becomes 
even a kind of religion. How many would have said, that 
the Saxon Heptarchy, tormented by so many intrigues and 
feuds of war, could never be a nation P But their formal 
combination under Egbert, followed by their wars against the 
Danes under Alfred, set them in a solid, sanctified unity, and 
made them, as a people, one true England, instead of the 
seven Englands that were—which seven were never again to 
be more than historically remembered. And so, bleeding on 
together from that time to this, in all sorts of wars ; wars 
civil and wars abroad ; drenching the land and coloring the 
sea with their blood ; gaining all sorts of victories and suffer¬ 
ing all kinds of defeats ; their parties and intestine strifes are 
no more able now to so much as raise a thought that is not 
in allegiance to their country. In like manner—let no one 
doubt of it—these United States, having dissolved the intrac¬ 
table matter of so many infallible theories and bones of con¬ 
tention, in the dreadful menstruum of their blood, are to settle 
into fixed unity, and finally into a nearly homogeneous life. 

Passing to another point of view, we owe it to our dead in 
this terrible war, that they have given us the possibility of a 
great consciousness and great public sentiments. There must 
needs be something lofty in a people's action, and above all 
something heroic in their sacrifices for a cause, to sustain a 
great sentiment in them. They will try, in the smooth days 


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of peace, and golden thriftiness, and wide-spreading growth, 
to have it, and perhaps will think they really have it, hut they 
will only have semblances and counterfeits—patriotic profes¬ 
sions that are showy and thin, swells and protestations that 
are only oratorical and have no true fire. All the worse if they 
have interests and institutions that are all the while mock¬ 
ing their principles ; breeding factions that can be quieted only 
by connivances, and compromises, and political bargains, that 
sell out their muniments of right and nationality. Then you 
shall see all high devotion going down as by a law, till nothing 
is left but the dastard picture of a spent magistracy, that, 
when everything is falling into wreck, can only whimper that 
it sees not anything it can do! Great sentiments go when 
they are not dismissed, and will not come when they are sent 
for. We cannot keep them by much talk, nor have them 
because we have heard of them and seen them in a classic 
halo. A lofty public consciousness arises, only when things 
are loftily and nobly done. It is only when we are rallied by 
a cause, in that cause receive a great inspiration, in that inspi¬ 
ration give our bodies to the death, and then, out of many 
such heroes dead, comes the possibility of great thoughts, fired 
by sacrifice, and a true public magnaminity. 

In this view, we are not the same people that we were, and 
never can be again. Our young scholars, that before could 
only find the forms of great feeling in their classic studies, 
now catch the fire of it unsought. Emulous, before, of saying 
fine things for their country, they now choke for the impossi¬ 
bility of saying what they truly feel. The pitch of their life is 
raised. The tragic blood of the war is a kind of new capacity 
for them. They perceive what it is to have a country and a 
public devotion. Great aims are close at hand, and in such 
aims a finer type of manners. And what shall follow, but 


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that, in their more invigorated, nobler life, they are seen here¬ 
after to he manlier in thought and scholarship, and closer to 
genius in action. 

I must also speak of the new great history sanctified hy 
this war, and the blood of its fearfully bloody sacrifices. So 
much worth and character were never sacrificed in a human 
war before. And hy this mournful offering, we have bought a 
really stupendous chapter of history. We had a little 
very beautiful history before, which we were beginning to 
cherish and fondly cultivate. But we had not enough of it to 
beget a full historic consciousness. As was just now inti¬ 
mated in a different way, no people ever become vigorously 
conscious, till they mightily do, and heroically suffer. The 
historic sense is close akin to tragedy. We say it accusingly 
often,—and foolishly—that history cannot live on peace, but 
must feed itself on blood. The reason is that, without the 
blood, there is really nothing great enough in motive and 
action, taking the world as it is, to create a great people or 
story. If a gospel can be executed only in blood, if there is 
no power of salvation strong enough to carry the world's feel¬ 
ing which is not gained by dying for it, how shall a selfish 
race get far enough above itself, to be kindled by the story of 
its action, in the dull routine of its common arts of peace ? 
Doubtless it should be otherwise, even as goodness should be 
universal; but so it never has been, and upon the present 
footing of evil never can be. The great cause must be great 
as in the clashing of evil, and heroic inspirations, and the bleed¬ 
ing of heroic worth, must be the zest of the story. Nations can 
sufficiently live, only as they find how to energetically die. In 
this view, some of us have felt, for a long time, the want of a 
more historic life, to make us a truly great people. This want 
is now supplied ; for now, at last, we may be said to have 


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gotten a history. The story of this four years war is the 
grandest chapter, I think, of heroic fact, and tragic devotion, 
and spontaneous public sacrifice, that has ever been made in 
our world. The great epic story of Troy is but a song in 
comparison. There was never a better, and never so great a 
cause—order against faction, law against conspiracy, liberty 
and right against the madness and defiant wrong of slavery, 
the unity and salvation of the greatest future nationality and 
freest government of the world, a perpetual state of war to be 
averted, and the preservation for mankind of an example of 
popular government and free society that is a token of 
promise for true manhood, and an omen of death to old abuse 
and prescriptive wrong the world over; this has been our 
cause, and it is something to say that we have borne ourselves 
worthily in it. Our noblest and best sons have given their 
life to it. We have dotted whole regions with battle fields. 
We have stained how many rivers, and bays, and how many 
hundred leagues of railroad, with our blood. We have suf¬ 
fered appalling defeats ; twice at Bull Run, at Wilson's 
Creek, in the great campaign of the Peninsula, at Cedar 
Mountain, at Fredericksburgh, at Chancellorsville, at Chicka- 
mauga, and upon the Red River, leaving our acres of dead on 
all these fields and many others less conspicuous ; yet, abat¬ 
ing no jot of courage and returning with resolve unbroken, 
we have converted these defeats into only more impressive 
victories. In this manner too, with a better fortune nobly 
earned, we have hallowed as names of glory and high victory, 
Pea Ridge, Donnelson, Shiloh, Hilton Head, New Orleans, 
Vicksburgh, Port Hudson, Stone River, Lookout Mountain, 
Resaca, Atlanta, Fort Fisher, Gettysburg!], Nashville, Wil¬ 
mington, Petersburgh and Richmond, Bentonville, Mobile Bay, 
and last of all the forts of Mobile city. All these and a bun- 


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dred others are now become, and in all future time are to be, 
names grandly historic: And to have them is to he how great 
a gift for the ages to come ! By how many of the future 
children of the Republic will these spots he visited, and how 
many will return from their pilgrimages hither, blest in re¬ 
membrances of the dead, to whom they owe their country. 

Among the fallen too we have names that will glow with 
unfading lustre on whatever page they are written—our own 
brave Lyon, baptizing the cause in the blood of his early 
death ; our Sedgwick, never found wanting at any point of 
command—equal in fact to the very highest command, and 
only too modest to receive it when offered ; the grandly gifted 
young McPherson, who had already fought himself into the 
first rank of leadership, and was generally counted the peerless 
hope and prodigy of the armies ; Reynolds also, and Kearney, 
and Reno, and Birney, and how many brilliant stars, or even 
constellations of stars, in the lower degrees of command—such 
as Rice, and Lowell, and Vincent, and Shaw, and Stedman, 
and a hundred others in like honor, for the heroic merit of 
their leadership and death. And yet, when I drop all particu¬ 
lar names, dear as they may be, counting them only the smoke 
and not the fire, letting the unknown trains of dead heroes 
pack, and mass, and ascend, to shine, as by host, in the glori¬ 
ous Milky Way of their multitude—men that left their busi¬ 
ness and all the dearest ties of home and family to fight their 
country’s righteous war, and fought on till they fell—then for 
the first time do I seem to feel the tide-swing of a great his¬ 
toric consciousness. God forbid that any prudishness of mod¬ 
esty should here detain us. Let us fear no more to say that 
we have won a history and the right to be a consciously 
historic people. Henceforth our new world even heads the 
old, having in this single chapter risen clean above it. The 


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wars of Csesar, and Frederic, and Napoleon, were grand 
enough in their leadership, hut there is no grand people, or 
popular greatness in them, consequently no true dignity. In 
this war of ours it is the people, moving by their own decisive 
motion, in the sense of their own great cause. For this cause 
we have volunteered by the million, and in three thousand mil¬ 
lions of money, and by the resolute bleeding of our men and 
the equally resolute bleeding of our self-taxation, we have 
bought and sanctified consentingly all these fields, all that is 
grand in this thoroughly principled history. 

Again, it is not a new age of history only that we owe to 
the bloody sacrifices of this war, but in much the same man¬ 
ner the confidence of a new literary age; a benefit that we are 
specially called, in such a place as this, and on such an occa¬ 
sion, to remember and fitly acknowledge. Great public throes 
are, mentally speaking, changes of base for some new thought- 
campaign in a people. Hence the brilliant new literature of 
the age of Queen Elizabeth; then of another golden era under 
Anne ; and then still again, as in the arrival of another birth¬ 
time, after the Napoleonic wars of George the Fourth. The 
same thing has been noted, I believe, in respect to the wars of 
Greece and Germany. Only it is in such wars as raise the public 
sense and majesty of a people that the result is seen to follow. 
For it is the high-souled feeling raised that quickens high- 
souled thought, and puts the life of genius in the glow of new 
born liberty. This we are now to expect, for the special, 
reason also that we have' here, for the first time, conquered 
a position. Thus it will be seen that no great writer becomes 
himself, in his full power, till he has gotten the sense of 
position. Much more true is this of a people. And here has 
been our weakness until now. We have held the place of 
cliency, we have taken our models and laws of criticism, and, 


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to a great extent, our opinions, from the English motherhood 
of our language and mind. Under that kind of pupilage we 
live no longer; we are thoroughly weaned from it, and become 
a people in no secondary right. Henceforth we are not going 
to write English, hut American. As we have gotten our 
position, we are now to have our own civilization, think our 
own thoughts, rhyme in our own measures, kindle our own 
fires, and make our own canons of criticism, even as we settle 
the proprieties of punishment for our own traitors. We are 
not henceforth to live as by cotton, and corn, and trade, 
keeping the downward slope of thrifty mediocrity. Our young 
men are not going out of college, staled, in the name of disci¬ 
pline, by their carefully conned lessons, to be launched on the 
voyage of life as ships without wind, but they are to have 
great sentiments, and mighty impulsions, and souls alive all 
through, in fires of high devotion. 

We have gotten also now the historic matter of a true ora¬ 
torio inspiration, and the great orators are coming after. In 
the place of politicians we are going to have, at least, some 
statesmen ; for we have gotten the pitch of a grand, new, 
Abrahamic statesmanship—unsophisticated, honest and real ; 
no cringing sycophancy, or cunning art of demagogy. We 
have also facts, adventures, characters enough now in store, 
to feed five hundred years of fiction. We have also plots, 
and lies, and honorable perjuries, false heroics, barbaric mur¬ 
ders and assassinations, conspiracies of fire and poison,— 
enough of them, and wicked enough, to furnish the Satanic 
side of tragedy for long ages to come ; coupled also with such 
grandeurs of public valor and principle, such beauty of heroic 
sacrifice, in womanhood and boyhood, as tragedy has scarcely 
yet been able to find. As to poetry, our battle fields are 
henceforth names poetic, and our very soil is touched with a 


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mighty poetic life. In the rustle of our winds, what shall the 
waking soul of our poets think of, hut of brave souls riding 
by? In our thunders they may hear the shocks of charges, 
and the red of the sunset shall take a tinge in their feeling 
from the summits where our heroes fell. A new sense comes 
upon everything, and the higher soul of mind, quickened by 
new possibilities, finds inspirations where before it found only 
rocks, and ploughlands, and much timber for the saw. Are 
there no great singers to rise in this new time P Are there no 
unwonted fires to be kindled in imaginations fanned by these 
new glows of devotion? We seem, as it were in a day, to be 
set in loftier ranges of thought, by this huge flood-tide that 
has lifted our nationality, gifted with new sentiments and finer 
possibilities, commissioned to create, and write, and sing, and, 
in the sense of a more poetic feeling at least, to be all poets. 

Considering now these higher possibilities of literature, who 
shall say how much our one hundred fallen brothers have 
done for us in taking the field to die for their .country ? The 
literary talent of some of them was in the highest grade of 
promise, yet even these may have done more for us by their 
death than they could have done by their life. As the scholarly 
and piquant Winthrop became an author of renown only after 
his death on the field of Big Bethel, so, in a little different 
sense, may it be true of them all. They reverse, how touch¬ 
ingly, the fable of Anteus. Instead of receiving from the 
earth, when they touch it, a giant strength, they give to the 
earth, as it takes in their blood, a new inspiration for all 
brothers in learning for long ages to come ; and so, for as long 
a time, they will write, and speak, and sing, in myriads of 
great souls coming after. Perhaps we should not think of 
educating men to be used in dying, yet the dying nobly and 
with power is one of the most fruitful and dearest uses to 


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which any of us come—would that all our youth could see it! 
Young Carrington, for example, had just come to the flower of 
his graduation, and the loss of so great promise, before the 
time of fruit, seems to he total. Far from that as possible ! 
How many of his comrades have been impressed, even as they 
do not know themselves, by the sacred beauty of his early 
sacrifice ; how many been impregnated in their own flowering, 
with those best and highest sentiments that never set their 
fruit, after men are past their flower. I know not what the 
ingenious and versatile Blake might have written, or how, or 
when, the lines of humor he took so nicely by his eye, and 
sketched so adroitly by the off-hand cunning of his pencil, 
might have flashed into words and brilliant authorship ; but 
the noble successes and honors of his soldier life, too soon cut 
short in the fatal fight of Cedar Mountain, have turned his 
key of humor how affectingly; showing us in what close com¬ 
pany a high soul often joins the heroic impulse with exuberant 
play. 

Great action is the highest kind of writing, and he that 
makes a noble character writes the finest kind of book. To 
invent is one thing, to become is another, and vastly higher. 
Young Kice, for example, who begins a private and ends a 
brigadier, rushed up the steep of promotion by the general 
acclaim of his superiors—I know not what he might have 
written, enough to know what he was. Nothing makes so 
grand a figure, whether in fact or fiction, as a character of high 
adventure coupled with high principle ; and this he began to 
show before he became a soldier. Thus, being in great trouble, 
after his graduation, for the debt incurred in his studies, he 
dared exactly what few young men could, and what still fewer 
could with success ; he put himself boldly before a gentleman 
of wealth to whom he was a perfect stranger, craving the loan 


3 


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of $500, engaging to repay it within a year, from an expected 
income in teaching ) and so well did he manage himself and 
his story that he was successful. The mere personal interest 
he excited won the cause for him, and with only a faint glim¬ 
mer of expectation that the money would ever he seen again, 
it was cheerfully put in his hands. But before the appointed 
year is out, behold he appears with his fund of payment 
ready ! Does any one require to he told that such a man will 
fight? or that he will do it well and faithfully? Passing 
through six great battles and shining in them all, he fell on 
the hanks of the Po, and was carried to the field hospital 
to die. In the death struggle which shortly followed, he asked 
to be turned on his side. “ Which way shall we turn you ?” 
u Turn my face to the enemy,” he replied, gaspingly, a"hd in 
these six words the hook God gave him to write was finished. 
It was a hook all action, and he might never have written any 
other. It was a battle fought out to the end, in the sc front 
face ” manner of a soldier ; hut it was none the less a poem, a 
tragedy, a character fascinatingly drawn. If it had been some¬ 
thing to compose it, as by literary art, how much more to he it 
with no art at all ! No, my brothers, we will not bewail these 
dead of ours to-day as being lost to the cause of letters ; for the 
inspirations and the grand realities of letters they have given 
up their lives to supply, as truly as to save their country. 

I might also speak at large, if I had time, of the immense 
benefit these dead have conferred upon our free institutions 
themselves, by the consecrating blood of their sacrifice. But 
I can only say that having taken the sword to be God's minis¬ 
ters, and to vindicate the law as his ordinance, they have done 
it even the more effectively in that they have died for it. It 
has been a wretched fault of our people that we have so nearly 
ignored the moral foundations of our government. Regarding 


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it as a merely human creation, we have held it only by the 
tenure of convenience. Hence came the secession ; for what we 
create by our will, may we not dissolve by the same ? Bitter 
has been the cost of our pitifully weak philosophy. In these 
rivers of blood we have now bathed our institutions, and they 
are henceforth to he hallowed in our sight. Government is 
now become Providential—no more a mere creature of our 
human will, hut a grandly moral affair. The awful stains of 
sacrifice are upon it, as upon the fields where our dead battled 
for it, and it is sacred for their sakes. The stamp of God's 
sovereignty is also upon it; for he has beheld their blood upon 
its gate-posts and made it the sign of his passover. Hence¬ 
forth we are not to be manufacturing government, and defy¬ 
ing in turn its sovereignty because we have made it ourselves ; 
hut we are to revere its sacred rights, rest in its sacred immu¬ 
nities, and have it even as the Caesar whom our Christ himself 
requires us to obey. Have we not also proved, written it down 
for all the ages to come, that the most horrible, God-defying 
crime of this world is unnecessary rebellion ? 

I might also speak of the immense contribution made for 
religion, by the sacrifices of these bleeding years. Religion, at 
the first, gave impulse, and, by a sublime recompense of reac¬ 
tion, it will also receive impulse. What then shall we look for 
but for a new era now to break forth, a day of new gifts and 
powers and holy endowments from on high, wherein great 
communities and friendly nations shall be girded in sacrifice, 
for the cause of Christ their Master P 

But these illustrations must not be continued farther. Such 
are some of the benefits we are put in obligations for by the 
dead in this great war. And now it remains to ask, by what 
fitting tribute these obligations are to be paid ? And it sig- 


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nifies little, first of all, to say, let the widows of these dead 
he widows, and their children, children of the Republic. Let 
them also he the private care of us all. Let the childless 
families adopt these fatherless. Give the sons and daugh¬ 
ters growing up the necessary education ; open to them ways 
of industry; set them in opportunities of advancement. Let 
our whole people resolve themselves into a grand Sanitary 
Commission, for these after blows of suffering and loss, occa¬ 
sioned by the war. 

Again, it is another of the sacred obligations we owe to the 
dead, that we sanctify their good name. Nothing can he more 
annoying to the sense of honor, than the mischievous facility 
of some, in letting down the merit and repute of the fallen, by 
the flippant recollection of their faults, or, it may he, of their 
former vices. Who have earned immunity from this petty kind 
of criticism, if not they who have died for their country ? How 
great a thing has it been for many in this war, to spring into 
consciously new life, in the ennobling discovery that they could 
have a great feeling ? And what, in the plane of mere nature, 
will so transform a man, as to he caught by the heroic impulse, 
and begin to have the sense of a cause upon him ? Indeed I 
am not sure that some specially heroic natures do not flag and 
go down under evil, just because the storm they were made for 
has not begun to blow. Some such were greater souls perhaps 
than we thought, and if they were not perfectly great, who hut 
some low ingrate would now dim their halo by a word ? And 
what if it should happen, that even a Congressional Commit¬ 
tee may so far turn themselves into a committee of scandal, as 
to assail with unrighteous facility the military merit of the 
dead ? If the dead cannot answer, what shall we do hut 
answer for the dead P 

A great work also is due from us to the dead, and quite as 


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much for our own sakes as theirs, in the due memorizing of 
their names and acts. Let the nation’s grand war monument 
he raised in massive granite, piercing the sky. Let every State, 
honored by such names as Sedgwick, and Lyon, and Mansfield, 
claim the right to their honors for the future ages, by raising, 
on some highest mountain top, or in some park of ornament, 
the conspicuous shaft, or pillar, that will fitly represent the 
majesty of the men. The towns and villages will but honor 
themselves, when they set up their humbler monuments, in¬ 
scribed with the names of the fallen. Let the churches also, 
and the college halls and chapels, show their mural tablets, 
where both worship and learning may be quickened by the 
remembrance of heroic deeds and deaths. In this way, or 
some other, every name of our fallen Alumni should be con¬ 
spicuously recorded in the College; that our sons coming 
hither may learn, first of all, that our mother gives her best to 
die for their country. 

There should also be given to the public a carefully prepared 
volume, containing distinct notices and recollections of all our 
Alumni who have fallen in the war, and have held a figure 
sufficiently public to be distinctly commemorated. There are 
many such names that I should like to present for your partic¬ 
ular remembrance on this occasion ; such as Hebard, and But¬ 
ler, and Hannahs, and Roberts, and Porter, and Dutton, and 
others who have won distinction with them. I have already 
named a few examples from the general list in another con¬ 
nexion. Excuse me if I briefly commemorate two others ; 
viz : Captain William Wheeler and Major Henry W. Camp ; 
doing it partly for my own satisfaction, because I had a par¬ 
ticular personal interest in them. 

Young Wheeler’s enlistment in an Independent Battery, put 
him completely out of the line of promotion; and yet it must 


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have come, in some way extraordinary, shortly; indeed, I learn 
that it was just about to come, by a stride that would have 
set him in a high position. No Captain of the war was more 
efficient or more perfectly master of his place; none more 
thoroughly idolized in the love and pride of his command. 
Sober, and cool, and clear-headed, and perfectly a man in 
every highest quality of energy, and correct principle, and 
unfearing devotion to his cause, he was already grandly pro¬ 
moted in the judgment of all who knew him. Ordered in a 
severe fight to shift his battery to another position, he sent it 
promptly with his men, and having a piece too much disabled 
to he moved, he could not leave it, hut letting go his horse, 
took hold with a sergeant, and they two, loading and firing in 
a battle of their own, levelled their aim with such precision, 
while the enemy's grape were spattering on the gun, that they 
drove hack the advancing column and saved the piece. How 
they lived a moment in such a storm nobody could guess ; hut 
alas ! the sharpshooter's single bullet took him afterwards, at 
a post of honor given him and his little command—to he 
maintained by them alone—and there his brave, noble chapter 
of life was ended. 

Major Camp I had known from his childhood onward, and 
had watched him with a continually growing expectation to 
the last. His wondrously fine person, was a faithful type of 
his whole character and power. His modesty and courage 
never parted company. His almost over-delicate conscience 
was fitly fortified by a strong unsuhduahle will. He had no 
flash qualities, hut was always unfolding in full round har¬ 
mony with himself. As a man he scarcely dared to think him¬ 
self a Christian, as a Christian he was never any the less per¬ 
fectly a man. My impression of him is that I have never 
known so much of worth, and beauty, and truth, and massive 
majesty so much, in a word, of all kinds of promise—em- 


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bodied in any young person. Whatever he might undertake, 
whether to be a poet, or a philosopher, or a statesman, or a 
preacher, or a military commander, or indeed an athlete, he 
seemed to have every quality on hand necessary to success. 
And this I think is the impression of him that every reader of 
his noble story will have received. When he tights a college 
boat race at Worcester, or the sea at Hatteras Inlet, or the 
enemy at Newbern, or the dreary rigors of a prison, or the 
impossible rigors of an escape, it makes little difference 
whether he is successful or not, everybody sees that he ought 
to be. Finally paroled and released, after many long months 
of confinement, he returns home on a short furlough ; but 
hearing, only five days after, that he has been exchanged, he 
tears himself away from furlough and friends, and is off in 
two hours time for his regiment. And he joins them on the 
field of battle, welcomed by the acclamations of the men and 
the hearty cheers of the command. Though he has a nature 
gentle as a woman's, he is yet called the Iron Man, and the 
iron property was abundantly shown again and again, wherever 
that kind of metal was wanted. His regiment, always relied 
on, is finally brought up in two lines to head an assault, and 
he is purposely set on the wing of the second line, that he 
may not be thrown away. Believing that the assault must be 
an utter failure, for that was the opinion of all, he still mod¬ 
estly suggested that he might be put upon the forward line ! 
and there he fell riddled with bullets, only not to see the gen¬ 
eral massacre of the men. 0, it was a dark, sad day that cost 
the loss of such a man ! 

“For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, 

Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.” 

Little does it signify to him, though much to us, that his 
memory should be sanctified by some enduring record. 


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And yet, speaking thus of particular names and leaders to 
be commemorated, it is impossible not to be troubled by a cer¬ 
tain feeling of absurdity, that our honors cannot be giaded, 
after all, by any scale of justice. Multitudes of the bravest 
are nameless; or, if we find their names, we know not whose 
they are, or where, or how they fell. I certainly would not 
diminish the glory of the great commanders, whether dead or 
livino- Commanders are the brain of all movement and the 

o* 

soul of all great confidence, gathering up in their person whole 
divisions and armies, and hurling them forward upon victory. 
And yet how much does it signify that they have men to 
inspire and lead who can dare to be men, and fight in the sense 
of a cause. And if we speak of courage to die, how many 
thousands who were only privates, and are now without a 
name, have faced, each one, more perils, pitched themselves 
into more cannons’ mouths and more bayonetted columns, 
than all the Major-Generals of the armies. 

Ten color-bearers, for example, seize the fatal staff, one after 
another, and the last finally plants it on the edge of the para¬ 
pet to be gained ! Regiments that are sworn to never falter, 
pushed into the assault again and again because they can be 
relied on, bearing off their dead each time till they are reduced 
to a handful, yet ready to halve that handful, if they must, 
in heading an assault that every man of them knows to 
be senseless—this I call great soldiership. Make due note too 
of those thousands of prisoners, shut up in the pen of their 
captivity, without officers, decimated every month and almost 
every day by starvation, yet voting, to a man, that they will 
never yield their allegiance to even that cogent argument ! Or 
go through the wards of any crowded hospital, where the men 
are dying every hour, and catch the messages they send to 
wife, or child, or sweetheart: “ Say that I am gone; and that, 


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never having once regretted my enlistment, I willingly die for 
my country.” Who of you does not ache with me for the 
impossibility of doing justice to these glorious obscure, these 
private heroes of the war. What ghostly troops of them had 
our good father and martyr President sent on before him, from 
all his fields of battle, some in a complexion, if souls still keep 
their color, npt his own. And as our Abraham's bosom was never 
shut to such on earth, much more tenderly open will it he now. 
How paternally has he greeted them ! how eagerly caught the 
sublime story of their soldiership ! And if he could return 
again to his office, it would not he strange if he should send in 
a new batch of Major-Generals to he passed, whom the Senate 
never before heard of ! Really this wonderful massing of pri¬ 
vate worth and public valor in our armies, is the proudest fact 
of the war, and we owe it to ourselves to say it, and make our 
account of it, in whatever way we are able. 

But there is one other and yet higher duty that we owe to 
these dead ; viz : that we take their places and stand in their 
cause. It is even a great law of natural duty that the living 
shall come into the places and works of the dead. The same 
also is accepted and honored by Christianity, when it shows 
the Christian son, and brother, and friend, stepping into the 
places made vacant by the dead, to assume their blessed and 
great work unaccomplished, and die, if need be, in the testi¬ 
mony of a common martyrdom. They challenged, in this 
manner, if the commentators will suffer it, the vows of bap¬ 
tism, and “were baptised for the dead”—consecrated upon 
the dead, for the work of the dead. God lays it upon us in 
the same way now, to own the bond of fealty that connects us 
with the fallen, in the conscious community and righteous kin¬ 
ship of their cause. And then, as brothers baptized for the 
dead—Alumni, so to speak, of the Republic—we are to exe- 


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cute tlieir purpose and fulfil the idea that inspired them. 
Neither is it enough at this point to go off in a general heroic, 
promising, in high rhetoric, to give our life for the country in 
like manner. There is no present likelihood that we shall he 
called to do any such thing. No, hut we have duties upon us 
that are closer at hand ; viz : to wind up and settle this great 
tragedy in a way to exactly justify every drop of hlood that 
has heen shed in it. Like the hlood of righteous Ahel it cries 
both to us and to God, from every field, and river, and wood, 
and road, dotted hy our pickets and swept hy the march of 
our armies. 

First of all we are sworn to see that no vestige of State 
sovereignty is left, and the perpetual, supreme sovereignty of 
the nation established. For what hut this have our heroes 
died ? Not one of them would have died for a government of 
mere optional continuance. Not one for a government fit to 
he rebelled against. But they volunteered for a government 
in perfect right, and one to he perpetual as the stars, and they 
went to the death as against the crime of hell. Tell me also 
this,—if a government is good enough to die for , is it not good 
enough to die by, when it is violated ? Not that every traitor 
is, of course, to be visited hy the punishment of treason. It 
is not for me to say who, or how many, or few, shall suffer 
that punishment. But I would willingly take the question to 
the dead victims of Belle Isle, and Salisbury, and Anderson- 
ville, and let them be the judges. There is no revenge in 
them now. The wild storms of their agony are laid, and the 
thoughts which hear sway, in the world where they are gath¬ 
ered, are those of the merciful Christ, and Christ the judge, 
before whose bar they know full well that their redress is sure. 
And yet I think it will he none the less their judgment that 
something is due to law and justice here. As too it was 


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something for them to die for the law, I can imagine them to 
ask whether it is not something for the law to prove its vindi¬ 
cated honor in the tit punishment of such barbarities ? May 
it not occur to them also to ask, whether proportion is not an 
everlasting attribute of justice ? and if punctual retribution 
is to follow the sudden taking otf of one, whether the deliber¬ 
ate and slow starvation of so many thousands is to he fitly 
ignored and raise no sword of judgment ? Neither is it any¬ 
thing to say, that the awful ruin of the rebellious country is 
itself a punishment upon the grandest scale, and ought to he 
sufficient; for the misery of it is, that it falls on the innocent 
and not on the leaders and projectors, who are the chief crimi¬ 
nals. Our liberal friends abroad conjure us to follow the lead 
of their despotisms, and cover up gently all these offenses, 
because they are only political. Ah ! there is a difference, 
they need to learn. Doubtless governments may be bad 
enough to make political offenses innocent; nay, to make them 
even righteous. But we have not fought this dreadful war to 
a close, just to put our government upon a par with their 
oppressive dynasties ! We scorn the parallel they give us; and 
we owe it even to them to say, that a government which is 
friendly, and free, and right, protecting all alike, and doing the 
most for all, is one of God's sacred finalities, which no hand 
may touch, or conspiracy assail, without committing the most 
damning crime, such as can be matched by no possible severi¬ 
ties of justice. We are driven in thus on every side, upon the 
conclusion that examples ought to be and must be made. 
Only they must be few and such as can be taken apart from 
all sectional conditions ; for we have sections to compose, and 
the ordinary uses of punishment in cases of private treason do 
not pertain where the crime is nearly geographic, and is scarcely 
different from public war. 


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One thing more we are also sworn upon the dead to do ; 
viz : to see that every vestige of slavery is swept clean. We 
did not begin the war to extirpate slavery, but the war itself 
took hold of slavery on its way, and as this had been the gan¬ 
grene of our wound from the first, we shortly put ourselves 
heartily to the cleansing, and shall not, as good surgeons, leave 
a part of the virus in it. We are not to extirpate the form 
and leave the fact. The whole black code must go ; the law of 
passes, and the law of evidence, and the unequal laws of suit 
and impeachment for crime. We are bound, if possible, to 
make the emancipation work well; as it never can till the old 
habit of domination, and the new grudges of exasperated pride 
and passion, are qualified by gentleness and consideration ; 
otherwise there will be no industry but only jangle; society in 
fact will be turned into a hell of poverty and confusion. And 
this kind relationship never can be secured, till the dejected 
and despised race are put upon the footing of men, and 
allowed to assert themselves some how in the laws. Putting 
aside all theoretic notions of equality, and regarding nothing 
but the practical want of the emancipation, negro suffrage 
appears to be indispensable. But the want is one thing, and the 
right of compelling it another. Our States have always made 
their own laws of suffrage, and if we want to resuscitate the 
State rights doctrine, there is no so ready way as to rouse it 
by State wrongs. But there is always a way of doing what 
wants to be done—pardon me if I name it even here ; for our 
dead are not asking mere rhetoric of us, but duty. They call 
us to no whimpering over ' them, no sad weeping, or doling of 
soft sympathy, but to counsel and true action. I remember, 
too, that we have taken more than a hundred thousand of these 
freedmen of the war to fight our common battle. I remember 
the massacre of Fort Pillow. I remember the fatal assault of 


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Fort Wagner and the gallant Shaw sleeping there in the pile 
of his black followers. I remember the bloody fight and vic¬ 
tory on the James, where the ground itself was black with 
dead. Ah there is a debt of honor here ! and honor is never 
so sacred as when it is due to the weak. Blasted and accursed 
be the soul that will forget these dead ! If they had no 
offices or honors, if they fought and died in the plane of their 
humility, just Grod, forbid, that we suffer them now to be 
robbed of the hope that inspired them ! 

Do then, simply this, which we have a perfect constitutional 
right to do,—pass this very simple amendment, that the basis 
of representation in Congress shall hereafter be the number, 
in all the States alike, of the free male voters therein. Then 
the work is done ; a general free suffrage follows by consent, 
and as soon as it probably ought. For these returning States 
will not be long content with half the offices they want, and 
half the power allowed them in the Kepublie. Negro suffrage 
is thus carried without even naming the word. 

Need I add, that now, by these strange fortunes of the 
rebellion rushing on its Providential overthrow, immense re¬ 
sponsibilities are put upon us, that are new. A new style of 
industry is to be inaugurated. The soil is to be distributed 
over again, villages are to be created, schools established, 
churches erected, preachers and teachers provided, and money 
for these purposes to be poured out in rivers of benefaction, 
even as it has been in the war. A whole Iiundred years of 
new creation will be needed to repair these wastes and regen¬ 
erate these habits of wrong ; and we are baptized for the dead, 
to go forth in God's name, ceasing not, and putting it upon 
our children never to cease, till the work is done. 

My task is now finished ; only, alas! too feebly. There are 
many things I might say, addressing you as Alumni, as Pro- 


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fessors and Teachers, and as scholars, training here for the new 
age to come. But you will anticipate my suggestions, and 
pass on by me, to conceive a better wisdom for yourselves. 
One thing only I will name, which is fitting, as we part, for us 
all; viz: that, without any particle of vain assumption, we 
swear by our dead to he Americans. Our position is gained ! 
Our die of history is struck ! Thank God we have a country ! 
And that country the chance of a future ! Ours he it hence¬ 
forth to cherish that country, and assert that future ; also, to 
invigorate both by our own civilization, adorn them by our 
literature, consolidate them in our religion ; resolved also, in 
God's own time, to champion, by land and sea, the right of 
this whole continent to be an American world, and to have its 
own American laws, and liberties, and institutions. 


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At the conclusion of the oration, the benediction was pro¬ 
nounced, and the audience dispersed. An hour afterwards, the 
procession was formed again in front of Graduates' Hall, and 
entered Music Hall, where the collation had been prepared, at 
half past three o'clock. 

By the aid of a Committee of gentlemen and ladies, of 
which Capt. John D. Wheeler was Chairman, the Hall had been 
decorated for the occasion with beautiful and striking effect. 
Upon the stage, behind the chair of the President, cannon and 
small arms, draped with the National colors, were skillfully 
grouped ; streamers of red, white, and blue, hung in long fes¬ 
toons from the centre of the lofty ceiling, and flags, not a few 
of which—lent by the State—had seen rough service in the 
field, met the eye at every turn. The whole of the main floor 
was occupied by long tables, handsomely set and adorned with 
flowers, and the galleries filled with ladies, many of them in 
bright costumes, gave new brilliancy to the scene. 

Upon white shields, hung around the front of the galleries, 
appeared the laurel-lettered names of twenty-one graduates of 
Yale, fallen in the service. These were, in the order of their 
arrangement:—* 


’ 62 . 

Alexander. 
Mine Run. 


’ 59 . 

Carrington. 
St. Marks. 


’ 59 . 

Hannahs. 

Williamsburgh. 


' 56 . 

Peck. 


Winchester. 


' 60 . 

Ogden. 

Trevillian Station. 


’ 59 . 

Wheeler. 
Getty sburgli. 


’ 47 . 

Noyes. 

Corinth. 


’ 61 . 

Clark. 

Richmond. 


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* 55 . 

’50. 

Wheeler. 

Manross. 

Culp’s Farm, Ga. 

Antietam. 

’62. 

’49. 

Skinner. 

Beecher. 

Petersburgh. 

Cold Harbor. 

’60. 

’57. 

Camp. 

Porter. 

Richmond. 

Winchester. 

’58. 

’57. 

Blake. 

Dutton. 

Cedar Mountain. 

Cedar Mountain. 

’57. 

’57. 

Roberts. 

Butler. 

Murfreesboro.’ 

Suffolk. 

’45. 

’61. 

Redfield. 

Pratt. 

Allatoona. 

Hanover Town. 


’48. 

WlNTHROP. 

Great Bethel. 

The different Classes, as they entered the Hall, were given 
seats together, as far as possible, the head of the room being 
occupied by a long table, fronting the others, and placed upon 
a raised platform, at which sat the President of the Hay, sup¬ 
ported on the right and left by a number of gentlemen of dis¬ 
tinction, among whom were His Excellency, Governor Buck¬ 
ingham, President Woolsey, Ex-President Hay, Rev. Hr. 
Bushnell, Major General Anderson, Major General Schuyler 
Hamilton, Brigadier Generals Parsons, Ullmann, Noble of Iowa, 
Noble of Connecticut, Roberts, Carrington, Harland, and Ban- 
iel Tyler, Lieutenant Governor Averill, Bishop Smith of Ken¬ 
tucky, Rev. Hr. Massie of London, Rev. Hr. Sturtevant, Pres¬ 
ident of Illinois College, and Fitz Greene Halleck, Esq. 

Grace having been asked, by the venerable President Hay, 
an hour was spent over the collation and in social conversation, 


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the airs “ Alma Mater ” “ Rally round the Flag,” and “ Lau- 
riger Horatius” being started by some of the later Classes, 
and sung with full chorus, as the tables were being cleared.'"* 
The President of the Day then rose, and having called the 
assembly to order, said :— 

Gentlemen :— 

This is a company of very learned men, as any one may 
see by looking at the ticket by which he gained admission 
here. Some may have failed to take in the full sense of the 
line of Sanscrit which dignifies this card which I hold in my 
hand, from inattention to its profound meaning. For such, 
and such only, let me now translate it. 

“ This ticket procures you admission into an assembly of 
learned and cultivated men, where each guest will behave with 
perfect decorum, and submit in all things to the orders of the 
President, and no one will make a speech of more than ten min¬ 
utes in length. (Laughter and applause.) 

What but a most scientific language could have expressed in 
so few characters so long and sensible a code for our conduct 
here ! What a pity, in the waste of words of modern tongues, 
that such a language should be numbered with the dead ! 

It is not known, Gentlemen, exactly how many of those who 
have gone out from Yale into the service of the war are here 
present, and, as they are much dispersed at the tables, and 
many are in citizens' dress, I am requested to ask of them the 
favor to rise in their places, and the rest of the company to 
remain seated, while some direct of words of welcome, in the 
name and behalf of the College and the Alumni, shall be ad¬ 
dressed to them by the Chair. I shall therefore take the lib- 


* The Collation was provided by a New York caterer, at the price of four dollars 
a plate. Besides the special guests of the day and a few other gentlemeu, not con¬ 
nected with the College, who were also invited to join in the festival, about four 
hundred of the Alumni were at the table, to whom tickets of admission to the floor 
were sold at the price of three dollars each. The expense of the celebration, 
beyond the amount received from the sale of tickets, was met by a subscription 
from a few of the friends of the College in New Haven. 

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erty, before I sit down, of asking the Soldiers of Yale, who 
honor us with their presence to-day, that they will thus gratify 
their friends, composing this great company, by the opportu¬ 
nity to measure their number and recognize their persons. 

Gentlemen, we all remember the Alumni meeting of 1861. 
There were no soldiers of Yale with us then, but there was a 
manly spirit, under the terrible blow our pride had suffered 
from the rout of Bull Run, and there was a determined pur¬ 
pose to repair that disaster and redress that disgrace. This 
manly spirit has since shown itself in the conduct of our breth¬ 
ren on many fields ; this purpose has been fully accomplished. 

What, Gentlemen, may we give as the sum of what these 
four years have done for us as a people ? For more than a 
whole generation, we had been constantly growing into greater 
and greater hostilities of interest and of feeling ; our politics 
became more and more bitter and resentful, our people more 
and more estranged, till, at last, the peace of the Constitution 
was riven asunder, and the fate of the nation hung on the 
issues of war. Indeed, when a great statesman said, as he 
did, thirty years ago, u We have one country, one constitution, 
one destiny/' he used words of rhetorical prefiguration or of 
glorious prophecy, rather than of description of our actual con¬ 
dition. For, what shall we say of the oneness of that Con¬ 
stitution, which had two interpretations, so utterly repugnant, 
so bitterly hostile, as to place in constant peril the permanence, 
the supremacy of the great charter ? What shall we think of 
the oneness of that country which had a line of “ border states” 
running right through the middle of it ? What, of the one¬ 
ness of that destiny, which seemed to be, only, of perpetual 
discord or eternal separation ? But the soldiers of this war, 
in its triumphs, have given us, indeed, “ One Constitution, one 
Country, one Destiny." (Loud and prolonged applause.) 

What in History, what in the course of Providence in this 
world's affairs, shall be counted as the purpose and the result 
of this war ? The great problem of American statesmanship, 
from the formation of our Government, has been, to rid the 
country of the institution of slavery, without the destruction of 
society. So long and so surely as it must be the inevitable, the 


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inexorable law of every structure,—whether of the natural 
body, or of mechanical forces, or of mind or political organiza¬ 
tions,—that the measure of its strength and permanence is 
ever in its weakest point, so long and so surely has the presence 
of slavery in our system been the check of our pride, and the 
menace of our safety. But, alas ! for human wisdom and for 
human courage, who could plan, who could execute the means 
of the deliverance of future generations at the cost, to the pres¬ 
ent, of the terrors and the ruin which alone could purchase 
their ransom P Who should throw this young giant upon his 
back, and plant Ossa upon his knees, and Pelion upon his 
breast, until the knife and the cautery of war should extir¬ 
pate the body of this death, which was so fast encroaching 
upon his life ? Who should stop the whirl and whiz of the 
vast and manifold machinery of a wealthy, populous, impetu¬ 
ous, strenuous, powerful nation, till the weak shaft should be 
withdrawn, and its great forces be permitted to “ move all one 
way/’ in equal and cooperative strength and harmony ? Who 
but the same God who cared for our fathers, in their day, and 
made us a nation through the war of our independence, could 
perform this miracle of our rescue and salvation ? 

We may be sure then, Gentlemen, that in the record of this 
great transaction, imposing as its details are, valuable as its 
impressions upon our people are in innumerable ways, all will 
seem but casual and circumstantial, compared with the grand 
design and grand result, which, in the destruction of the sys¬ 
tem of slavery, has secured the uniformity, and so the peace 
and the permanence of our free institutions. 

Sons of Yale College who have served in the war, and thus 
actively and directly contributed to this happy, this wonderful 
consummation !—(The soldiers, dispersed at the many tables 
which tilled the hall, here rose, showing a great number, and 
the whole company loudly cheered,)—This whole day's pro¬ 
ceedings have been, and are to be in your honor. The elo¬ 
quence of our Orator, in commemmorating your companions, 
who shall return no more to us nor to their homes, has but 
illustrated the sentiments with which, in this scene of un¬ 
checked festivity, we crown with our applause the many chil- 


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dren of Yale who answered the country's call to arms, and yet 
survive to receive its grateful honors. 

There is nothing which we can do to express our joy and 
pride in you that shall he wanting. We felt that our College 
was of public service in the sphere of its influence. We knew 
that it prepared its scholars for all the arts of peace. We 
knew that it laid the foundation, and furnished the instruction 
for solid and useful thinking. You have shown us that there 
is no better discipline, no richer nor more forcible impulse, to 
solid and useful action. Wc knew how important it was for 
those who would serve the state in any department of 
public influence, to attain proficiency in eloquence of the lips. 
You have shown us how much wider audience,—even as wide 
as the world,—listens to the eloquence of lives devoted to 
their country. 

Remote, Gentlemen, as the action of your lives for the last 
four years may at first sight appear, far from the path to % 
which your education here was designed to introduce you, yet 
the most distinct and satisfactory authority for every step you 
have taken may he found in the diploma, with which you were 
dismissed from these walls. Let me recall its learned phrase 
and comprehensive commission :—“Pro auctoritate mihi com- 
missa, admitto vos ad primum in artibus gradum, et trado 
vobis hoc instrumentum und cum potestate publice praelegen- 
di” that is to say, (as everything is to be reasonably construed 
according to circumstances,) “ together with the privilege of 
publicly expressing your mind with guns and cannon, sword 
and bayonet, shot and shell," “ ubicunque et quotiescunque” 

“ on every battlefield and as long as the war lasts," “ ad hoc 
munus evocati fueritis” “ whenever by drum-beat or bugle- 
note, ye shall have been called out to this military duty." 
(Loud laughter and cheers.) 

And now, for the rest, Gentlemen, we propose to consider 
and to take counsel with you, how best, by some permanent 
memorial, we may connect the fame of the College with the 
honors which you and your brave companions have gained for 
it and yourselves, and how we may most surely make your 
noble example fruitful of equal devotion to our country, with 


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the future generations of scholars that shall go forth from these 
ancient halls. (Applause.) 

As the President took his seat, Prof Silliman called for three 
cheers for the Warriors of Yale, and they were given with a 
will, the whole audience springing to their feet, hats and caps 
flying up from the floor, and handkerchiefs waving from the 
galleries. 

The President .— 

It is impossible for us to allow any very long speeches here : 
it is equally impossible to allow any very long gaps. Rufus 
Choate was once asked by a learned referee, before whom he 
was engaged in a trial, whether he did not think there might 
be liiati in certain proceedings. Impossible, said Mr. Choate. 
Why so ? asked the referee. Because, Mr. Choate replied, hia¬ 
tus is a noun of the fourth declension. (Prolonged laughter.) 
And so, gentlemen, there must be no “ liiati” in the proceed¬ 
ings of this assembly. 

The first sentiment or subject upon which we shall call for a 
speech is,— The Union Restored.—One Constitution, One 
Country, One Destiny. (Cheers.) Gov. Buckingham will 
respond. (Great applause.) 

Gov. Buckingham :— 

Mr. President and Gentlemen :—The sentiment that the 
Union is restored, is in opposition to the declaration which was 
made more than four years ago, that the powers of the general 
government had determined, and that all allegiance to that 
government had ceased. It is also in opposition to that decla¬ 
ration, by one of the Presidents of the United States, who 
said, that the officers of the government had no power to co¬ 
erce a sovereign State. Notwithstanding these opposing decla¬ 
rations, it is proved that the Union is restored. It has been 
restored by the self-sacrificing devotion of the people of the 
Union to the interests of the government. It has been restored 
because the people have been united, and have moved under 
the common feeling, that interests involved in the presevation 
of this government, were interests essential to the rights of 


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Man. The people of this and of other States have united in 
manifesting their determination to preserve this government, 
at whatever cost, and let the sacrifices required be however 
great. If the question had been asked, how long will this peo¬ 
ple carry the burdens of civil war, the only true answer which 
could be made, was this,—-just so long as the people love lib¬ 
erty more than they love self-indulgence, so long will they bear 
the burdens of civil war, even if it carried every member of 
this generation down to his grave. 

This Union has been preserved by the power of the navy and 
army of the United States. It is this army which is the evi¬ 
dence of the spirit of patriotism which pervaded the nation. 
It is this army which, in connection with the navy, has given 
us the power which has subdued the rebellion. It is this army 
which has stopped the mouths of those who have justified se¬ 
cession and rebelion. It is the army, so proud and valiant in 
fight, which has captured and put to flight the armies of the 
enemy. Sir, do we not owe the army, and the brave men who 
composed it, whatever we have, and ought we not, with all the 
power we are able to command, to testify our appreciation of 
the great labors and the great results they have accomplished ? 
Surely, I should be false to my position, and to those whom I 
represent, if we did not pledge to them, now and ever, all that 
is in our hearts which testifies to our gratitude and apprecia¬ 
tion of their services. 

Mr. President, this army has been composed of men from 
every part of the North. Every State has done its duty ; and 
I may, perhaps, say without boasting, that Connecticut has 
furnished more than six thousand men over her quota. (Loud 
cheers.) And in doing this, Connecticut has done no more 
than her duty. And I am happy co say this also, that wher¬ 
ever Connecticut troops have been, they have brought no re¬ 
proach, no dishonor upon the country, and have made no blot 
upon the history of this little Commonwealth. Having fur¬ 
nished more than 54,000 men, and more than 140,000 years of 
service, if she has not furnished as many as some of the 
larger States, I hesitate not to state that it has been made up 
in the energy and spirit of her troops. 


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Mr. President, I see aiound me names which fill my heart, 
and the hearts of others, with profound emotion. Some among 
them remind me of those who are buried in unknown graves ; 
hut when the marble which marks the resting place of others 
shall have crumbled into dust, the names of those around me, 
and of all who have been their companions in the service, will 
stand out proudly on the roll of honor of the sons of Yale, 
and be as enduring as the history of the College and the his¬ 
tory of Connecticut. (Applause.) 

The President called for three cheers for Governor Bucking¬ 
ham, the soldiers' friend,—and the heartiness of the response 
showed that the value of His Excellency's services, throughout 
the War, was known and appreciated by the assembly. 

The Band then played “ The Land of the Free and the Home 
of the Brave !" 

The President :— 

Allow me, Gentlemen, now to give you, with some accuracy, 
the statistics of our roll of honor in the war. 

The whole number of graduates of the academical depart¬ 
ment of Yale College in the Union army and navy has been 
444. The alumni of the theological, medical, law, and scien¬ 
tific schools in the Union army, not counted in the previous 
enumeration, is 97. To these are to be added the names of 
those who for any length of time have been in the direct ser¬ 
vice of the Sanitary and Christian Commissions, numbering 24, 
—making a total of the alumni of Yale College, thus connected 
with the Union service, 565, Besides these, we should count 
in students of the College, non-graduates and undergraduates. 
Of the non-graduates who have been in the College Classes 
since the war began,—the Classes of '61 to '64,—there have 
been 124. Hardly any attempt has been made to collect the 
names of the non-graduates of the earlier Classes. But of 
these we have the names of 48, making in all, 

Non-graduates and undergraduates, . . . 172 

Graduates,. 565 


Total, 

(Loud and prolonged cheers.) 


737 



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Now, Gentlemen, this number is a very great one in itself; 
but when we count it as a percentage upon the numbers of 
our students now living, with whom the comparison should be 
made, you see at once how creditable the proportion is. The Col¬ 
lege Triennial issued, or to be issued to-morrow, gives us as the 
number, about 3,500 ; but when we consider that the percent¬ 
age of military service should be compared with the number ca¬ 
pable of performing active military duties, it will probably be 
much above the mark to say there are 2,400, of the 3,500, who 
should be counted from the classes of the last thirty years, and so 
are within the military age. Take 600 as the number to be cred¬ 
ited to the College, and 2,400 as the number of her graduates 
of the military age, and you have twenty-jive per cent, of the 
whole number ! Who has done better than this ? Who can 
say that any class of my patriotic countrymen has done better 
than the students of Yale ! 

I had the honor, as the organ of this celebration, to address 
a telegram to the President of the United States,—and I have 
the greater honor to announce the telegraphic reply. 

Ours was as follows :— 

New Haven, July 26. 

To His Excellency Andrew Johnson, President of the United 
States :—The graduates of Yale College, assembled in com¬ 
memoration of their associates who have served in the war, 
send their respectful greetings to the President of the United 
States. May it be his honor successfully to achieve the work 
to which he is called, of restoring peace and order to the coun¬ 
try for the defense of which so many of our brethren have per¬ 
iled and offered up their lives. 

WM. M. EVARTS, Chairman. 

To which the President replied :— 

Washington, July 26. 

Hon. Wm. M. Evarts, Chairman, &c., Yale—I thank you, 
and through you, the graduates of Yale, for their kind greet- 
ing. In the difficult and delicate duties before me, I rely upon 
the support of the same intelligent patriotism which, during 
the war, has given so many noble lives and deeds to our country. 
American scholarship has gained undying honor by its contri¬ 
butions to the literature and the achievements of our recent 
struggle for national existence, and in the victories of peace 


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which I trust are now to come, American scholarship will sus¬ 
tain the reputation it has won. 

Very truly, your friend, 

ANDREW JOHNSON. 

Three cheers were given for the President of the United 
States ; after which, the Band played, “ Hail to the Chief” 

The President :— 

Besides, Gentlemen, our own military men, we are hon¬ 
ored with the presence here, to-day, of some other distin¬ 
guished soldiers, two of whom I shall have the honor to 
present to you We delight to honor the true military hero¬ 
ism of our country, from whatever section, and by whatever 
services it may have been nurtured and trained. I have the 
pleasure of introducing to you Major Gen. Robert Anderson. 

At this announcement, the audience rose to their feet and 
welcomed the General with loud and prolonged cheers. 

Gen. Anderson :— 

Mr. President and friends:—I am so overwhelmed by 
your kind welcome, that I dare not venture to express in words 
my sentiments and feelings. I can, therefore, only bow my 
acknowledgments, and take my seat. 

The President :— 

I do not know how more fortunately, the memories 
of the revolution and its military heroism, could be blended 
with the memory and military renown of this struggle, than 
in the name and person of one of our guests. 

In one person, I have the honor to present to you the great- 
grand-son of Gen. Schuyler, the grand-son of Gen. Alexander 
Hamilton, and General Schuyler Hamilton himself. 

The audience again rose, and welcomed the General with 
three hearty cheers. 

Gen. Hamilton :— 

I was at Island No. 10, and as our President has pre¬ 
sented us with one instance of great learning, if I shall 
give you any bad Latin, I shall beg him to correct me. 
If I remember rightly, C^sar, on a certain occasion, described 


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one of his great achievments in three words,— Vent , vidi, vici. 
So our army at Island No. 10, could have said,—We came, we 
sawed , we conquered. 

The President :— 

Caesar would have been very glad to have an oppor¬ 
tunity to show as much military genius as our army 
did at Island No. 10, and he would have been very lucky, 
if able to express himself in such good English as the gentle¬ 
man. (Laughter and cheers.) 

There is a toast that we always honor,—and wherever 
we honor the children of Yale, we honor the mother of 
those children. Let the soldiers forget for the moment their 
prominence for the day, and let them join with us, the com¬ 
mon scholars of Yale, in giving,—The honor and prosperity 
of our Alma Mater , from whose full breasts we have drawn 
the nutriment of our intellectual life. I will call upon 
President Woolsey. (Applause and cheers.) 

President Woolsey :— 

The good mother whom we call our Alma Mater has never, 
since my remembrance, appeared in public. She has too much 
matronly dignity for that. Accordingly, she employs her do¬ 
mestics to represent her. I appear at this time, as the head- 
waiter, or, to change the figure, as the poor tutor of the children. 

Some persons say that in modern times we have degenerated, 
because the instruction at College is furnished at a little later 
hour in the morning. I claim it is just as good as it used to 
he, when it was at five o'clock in summer. (Laughter and ap¬ 
plause.) 

Mr. President: as representing Alma Mater , it gives me 
heart-felt pleasure and pride to meet with you at this time, and 
to hear such statistics as you have given to the company. It 
is our joy and our boast, that we have not been insensible 
to the claims that the country has upon us. And while, Mr. 
President, we go back to. the past, and feel that the long course 
of years since 1701, or 1702, when the College was founded, 
furnishes us a glorious history; while we remember the distin¬ 
guished theologians that have gone hence, from the Edwardses, 


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Dwights and Bellamys, down to the modern list, with Taylor 
at their head ; while we remember the distinguished statesmen, 
and poets, the Hillhouses and Percivals ; the men of science, 
the Sillimans, the Morses, the Danas, and hosts of others ; 
while we think of the long and honored list of illustrious men 
in various walks of life, who are numbered among the children 
of Yale, we rejoice that these past few years have added to 
that history a new and brilliant page. As we read the names 
upon this Roll of Honor, we feel that their well earned fame is 
a part of our stock in trade. Our young brethren who have 
recently given themselves up, from principle, to the service of 
their country, have, by their courage, labors, sufferings and 
bloody sacrifices, endowed their Alma Mater with a brilliant 
military renown. We rejoice that the motive that led so many 
to the war, was not the love of reputation, nor the love of ad¬ 
venture, nor any lower motive ; but mingled with and rising 
above all, a pure, disinterested patriotism. And we rejoice 
to believe that this patriotism was kindled under the influence 
and within the walls of their Alma Mater. 

Mr. President, just before me, at the other end of the hall, 
I find the name of one who died at Big Bethel, a graduate of the 
Class of ’48. On the day upon which he left New York, he 
wrote to me and said :—“ I go down to the front for the pur¬ 
pose of lending my aid to the great work of attempting to get 
rid of slavery in this country.” 

And I see another name here,—the name of a noble Christ¬ 
ian, Eugene Butler, who went from pure, disinterested motives 
of duty, and who died in the act of giving a cup of water to 
an exhausted soldier of another regiment. Think, too, of 
Rice, that noble man, who told his soldiers that this was God's 
war,—not our war, but God's war. When I think of such 
things, I rejoice that these high principles have animated our 
young men. They furnish a more substantial foundation of 
honor, than all the scholarships and all the science in this 
country. 

As President Woolsey took his seat, amid warm cheering, 
a pyramid of confectionery tottered and fell over upon the 
table before him. 


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The President :— 

We must all admit, Gentlemen that President Woolsey has 
been more attractive by his eloquence than was Pericles, 
upon whose lips the bee settled, for a whole avalanche of 
sweet things has now settled upon him. (Laughter and cheers.) 
We must agree that, since the world began, no speaker, 
probably, ever received so candied a tribute to his oratory. 
(Great laughter.) 

We have heard of the influence and discipline of Yale in 
preparing the public mind for the war and its duties, and ot 
its special influence upon its own scholars, in sending them 
forth to participate in the great contest. We feel, also, the 
influence of the scholar on the activities of war,—of the scholar 
in the army,—and I have the pleasure of calling upon the Rev. 
Dr. Thompson, of New York, to express his sentiments on this 
occasion. 

Dr. Thompson :— 

Mr. President :—Were you and I called upon to name that 
instant of time in the last four years, when our souls were 
most deeply stirred, and thrilled with patriotic devotion, and 
even awed, as by the voice of God, speaking audibly through 
the people, we would go back to that day when we stood to¬ 
gether in Union Square,—where the statue of Washington was 
draped with the torn flag of Sumter,—and looked upon that 
vast concouse of all nationalities, parties and faiths, swearing 
fidelity to the flag of our country, in the presence of its first 
brave defenders. And that meeting in New York was the type 
of a simultaneous movement all over the land. Those guns in 
the harbor of Charleston were the signal for the uprising of a 
great people. The people in their masses,—the people in their 
majesty, then presented a spectacle that is unparalleled in his¬ 
tory ;—a whole nation moved by their own will to sacrifices 
before unknown for the preservation of their common country. 

Yet, by and by, those earlier impulses of patriotism sensibly 
subsided. For a while, the rent flag, the booming cannon, 
and the heroes of Sumter, sufficed to keep alive the devotion of 
the masses ; but it was soon apparent that some deeper impulse 
was necessary to sustain a protracted war. But as these pop- 


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ular cries began to flag, there came other voices, sounding 
through the ages, reminding us that this was not a mere strug¬ 
gle for the strongholds of armies ; that it was not a mere battle 
of physical forces \ but that it was a war of ideas, that it was 
a battle for principles, the same principles that the grand he¬ 
roes of liberty had fought for, centuries ago. I seemed to see 
that courtly scholar who combined in himself the wealth of two 
Universities, looking from the field of Zutphen,—where he 
gave his rich life to resist the encroachments of Spanish des¬ 
potism,—across to this Western hemisphere, and summoning us, 
by that heroic sacrifice, to withstand the despotism of slavery. 
I seemed to see John Hampden, —lawyer, gentleman, states¬ 
man, soldier,—rising, with shattered limb, from the field of 
Chalgrove, and looking hither, to see who would stand forth to 
represent in our age the principles to which he gave his schol¬ 
arly training and patriotic devotion. And Milton once more 
laid aside his dear companionship with books, and looked hither 
to see who would maintain the “ good old cause” with the pen, 
which, in his hand, was mightier than the sword. 

Thoughtful men, scholarly men, heard these voices of the 
ages, this summons of the mighty dead, and came to consecrate 
themselves to the same work. The President of Kenyon 
College, an accomplished scholar and a leader of education in 
the West, was one of the first to raise a regiment in Ohio ; he 
planted himself at its head, and fell in Western Virginia. 
Hubbard, of your own town, not content with the routine 
services of his office, so burdened himself with voluntary sac¬ 
rifices, that he sank under his labors for the army. Davis, the 
admiral, left his favorite pursuits of mathematical science, -to 
go and teach new lessons in circular sailing at Port Koyal! 
Clark forsook his laboratory at Amherst, and after good ser¬ 
vice in our cause, came back, happily, unharmed. And we 
never can forget “ Old Stars,” —as the boys used to call him—• 
who carried into the military service the same enthusiasm that 
inspired him in astronomy; and who, having defended so 
bravely the stars of the old flag, has gone to be himself a star, 
shining with immortality. 


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Harvard, the mother of ns all, inquired, Where are my 
sons ? And the first man who raised a regiment in Massachu¬ 
setts answered ;—himself a son of Harvard, who at the open¬ 
ing of the war, hastened to the defense of the Capital. And 
last Friday, at her commemorative service, she presented five 
hundred and twenty-eight as her roll of honor, of whom nine¬ 
ty-three are among the illustrious dead! 

The first horn of Yale College, in what was once the wilder¬ 
ness of Illinois, could not graduate her sons one year ago, be¬ 
cause every man of them had gone to the war,—as her Presi¬ 
dent, near me, will testify. (Cheers.) Oberlin, Knox, Wil¬ 
liams, Amherst, Bowdoin, sent forth their most gifted sons. 
Yale brings up to-day her full seven hundred ! This patriotic 
zeal of the men of training and culture, was a phenomenon as 
wonderful as was that first uprising of the masses ! It came 
when there was need of such a hack ground of patience and 
endurance as could come only from ideas. These men of ideas 
carried into the army habits of discipline, thought, culture ; 
personal influences, refining and elevating ; ideas of order, 
government, law, and liberty. 

They transformed the army, Mr. President, into a vast deba¬ 
ting society, to which all questions of law and order were now 
adjourned ;—into a high court of appeal, such as you, Sir, never 
confronted, where the grandest questions of nationality were 
adjusted by men who had been taught in our institutions of 
learning to think for themselves ; and the great truths of jus¬ 
tice and freedom, so penetrated the masses also, that they felt 
that these were thenceforth the very substance of the war. 

I am not to speak of the dead, as such ; hut you will suffer 
me to recall two or three names. There was our own Win- 
throp, whose modest worth and accomplished genius was hid¬ 
den from the world, till it flashed, like the sunlight of conse¬ 
cration, from his young and manly grave. There was Whee¬ 
ler, of whose high promise as a scholar all who knew him can 
testify. There was Schneider,— horn in a foreign land, and 
consecrated, in his father's thought, and his own, to the mis¬ 
sionary work abroad, hut when this crisis came, and a war was 
begun which threatened to overthrow the civilization and 


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Christianity of this land, he volunteered his services for the 
army, and died for our cause. 

Shall I refer also to Carrington, of whom I might almost 
speak as of a son by adoption, remembering how near to me 
he stood by association, and how one bearing my name was by 
him when he fell on the bloody field, and had the melancholy 
office of caring for his remains. Had he lived, he would have 
risen, in due time, to fill the place in your profession, Sir, now 
filled by the man whom Yale and New York alike delight to 
honor. 

There is not time even to mention the names of the many 
whom Yale has sent to represent her in this war of ideas. Her 
scholars have been true to their Alma Mater ,—true to her his¬ 
tory, and to the voices of the past. 

Mr. Choate once said, that Webster had never made such a 
speech as he was capable of making ; that if he had lived in 
the time of the Revolution, his whole mind would have been 
brought out; that there had been, in his life, no incidents to 
stir his majestic soul to its depths. How would it have been 
if Webster had felt this storm of war ! Who of us has not 
been conscious of ideas and emotions awakened by this war, 
which he had never before known ? Those vague ideas of lib¬ 
erty, of right, of government, which we had derived from text¬ 
books and the literature of the past; how, by the teachings of 
this war, have they been interpreted and intensified, till they 
are incorporated with the very texture of our souls, and can 
never lose their meaning or power ! Is there a man of us 
who is not thankful for this severe and terrific discipline P For 
one, I would not be without the thoughts, feelings, experien¬ 
ces, this war has given me, through all its conflicts, struggles, 
sacrifices, darkness, and, at last, its effulgent, glorious light,— 
I would not be without these, for all I had before acquired and 
treasured in this honored institution. Let us profit now by 
the teaching God has given us. 

Men of education : there is yet high, stern work before us,— 
a work which the path of war has marked out distinctly for 
us to do, in the reestablishing of social order and civil liberty. 
Let us be true to that, and act well our part as scholars, gov- 


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erned and guided by the true principles of justice, of liberty, 
and of righteousness. There is power in the educated mind of 
this nation to lift up the masses, to gird up the government, 
and to establish our free institutions, that they shall never 
again be shaken, until the last convulsion that shakes the solid 
globe. 

The President :—We come now to honor the living soldiers 
of the war, who have entered the public service as one of the 
results of the instructions they have received. We are to hear 
from them in considerable numbers, in response to a sentiment 
which I will give. The whole day is theirs. We now propose 
to honor those living sons of Yale who have served their country 
in war, and who have lived on to serve her in peace : I give you— 
The living sons of Yale who have served in and lived through 
the War. 

I have the honor of calling upon Gen. U llmann, of the Class 
of ’29. 

Gen. Ullmann :— 

I came here to-day, Sir, trusting that on so flattering an oc¬ 
casion, all speech-making would be left to the learned gradu¬ 
ates and civilians surrounding this board. You must be aware 
of the embarrassment in attempting to address such an assem¬ 
bly as this, which must be felt by one who has passed the last 
four years in tents, or in sleeping on the ground, with only the 
shelter of the broad canopy of the heavens. 

I should be derelict, however, to the position I have taken in 
the war, did I not avail myself of the opportunity, before this 
august body, of giving my testimony to the character of the 
American soldier. Sir, I may be permitted to say, that under 
the trying circumstances, and in all the fearful scenes of the 
recent war, the army of the United States never—never once 
despaired of the republic. (Loud cheers.) No matter what 
clouds and darkness covered the horizon ; no matter what ex¬ 
ulting shouts were rending the air from traitors, North and 
South, the army of the United States stood firm as the ever¬ 
lasting hills, trusting only to the God of battles. (Cheers.) 
Sir, they never failed to see the glorious rays of success gleam- 


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ing through and through the chirk clouds, and illuminating the 
heavens beyond. You do right then,—we are right in claiming, 
the army of the United States is justly entitled to all the hon¬ 
ors you can bestow upon them, for their unfaltering courage, 
and their undying patriotism. 

Sir, the multiplicity, the magnitude of the topics which come 
rushing in upon the mind, when one contemplates this war, is 
so great, that it stands awe-stricken ; it is scarcely capable of 
grasping them, or finding language to express its ideas. 

There have been, however, a few lessons that the American 
people should learn by this war, one or two of which I will 
take the liberty of mentioning. One of the minor ones is, that, 
on the whole, one Southerner is not quite equal to three North¬ 
ern men. (Laughter.) It is very difficult, now, to imagine 
on what this superiority was based. In going through the 
South, it appeared to me it was because the coat of arms of the 
chivalry was, or should have been, a bowie-knife, and cow-hide 
rampant, quartered by a whiskey jug, with a pack of cards and 
a pack of blood-hounds. (Laughter.) I apprehend that claim 
of superiority is pretty well exploded. 

Another lesson learned by this war is, that we well know 
how to estimate correctly the philanthropy of Great Britain. 
(Applause.) While we recognize and are profoundly grateful 
for the friendship of her real noblemen,—her Brights, her 
Smiths, her Cobdens, her Stuart Mills, and their glorious 
compatriots, we now know how to appreciate the friendly sym¬ 
pathy of her worthy premier, of her Lord Broughams, and of 
her great governing classes generally. (Cheers.) I am rejoiced 
that we are in a situation permanently to compel a respect for 
that trans-Atlantic power which they in their heart of hearts 
most thoroughly fear. 

Another lesson we have learned is, to understand the charac¬ 
ter of that cunning man who rules the people on the other side 
of the British channel. Shrewd as he is, had it not been that 
he expected that the rebels would permanently dismember this 
land, he never would have dared to insult the United States 
by setting at naught the Monroe doctrine, and attempting to 
impose a mock imperial throne upon a people who dwell upon 

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the borders of our republic, and to place upon it a scion of the 
despotic house of Austria. If there be one question of foreign 
policy which the whole people of the United States are unan¬ 
imously and absolutely determined upon above all others, it is 
the Monroe doctrine. (Cheers.) And an obvious, direct co¬ 
rollary from that proposition is, Maximilian must go out of 
Mexico, and that soon. 

Many questions have been settled by this war. I shall not 
venture, within the less than ten minutes allowed me, to men¬ 
tion more than one,—and that is, that an aristocracy has been 
crushed, which aimed to govern and control democratic Amer¬ 
ica, and that with it has also been crushed that pestilent her¬ 
esy, the paramount allegiance to the States, which has hereto¬ 
fore prevented this American people from becoming really and 
truly one nation. The wager of battle, and the blood of thou¬ 
sands of our fathers, brothers, and sons, have settled this ques¬ 
tion forever ; and the American people now stand before the 
world a nation, having unity, vitality and power, equal to any 
other nation of the civilized world, and, as such, destined here¬ 
after to cope with any others, either in the arts of peace or in 
the arts of war. (Applause.) 

The President :— 

I ask your attention to G-en. Parsons, of the Class of 1840. 
Gen. Parsons :— 

It is hardly fair, as this call is the first warning I have had, 
that I should be called upon to say even a word ; and while, 
Gentlemen, I profoundly feel and acknowledge my obligations 
to you, as one of those whom you have gathered together to¬ 
day, who have been employed recently in the military service 
of the country, and while I would profoundly return my ac¬ 
knowledgments, I must say that I feel that I hardly deserve it. 

I feel that instead of being a duty, for performing which we 
were thus to be repaid, it has been a high and noble privilege 
to stand up in the defense of our country. It is to those who 
could not go—whose years and surrounding circumstances 
would not permit them to rush forth to the defense of their 
country and to the support of the government,—it is these who 


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are entitled to our sympathies. It was our good fortune, that 
we were were permitted and able to go. 

For one, when the storm was rising, I felt that if this gov¬ 
ernment was lost, though we saved everything else, we were 
poor indeed ; whereas, if we could hut save the republic, 
though we lost everything else, we and our children after us 
would he blessed with priceless riches. It was this that 
prompted me, in common with millions of others, (for we count 
almost by millions,) to tender my services, asking not for place, 
and knowing nothing of the military art. I stated, distinctly, 
that I had never known anything of it; that I had not been 
educated a soldier : Where, said I, you say I may be useful, 
there I will go. The officer to whom I applied said, I will 
give you a position. Though the position assigned me was 
not one of my choice ; though I wished another; yet when 
appeal was made to the Secretary of War, he said—You are 
not right; your superior officer knows best. 

In this I have not been alone. It has not been, as in polit¬ 
ical life, a rush after the best places. There has been a wil¬ 
lingness, a patriotic, self-sacrificing willingness to he assigned 
to the places where each could he the most useful. I regret 
there is not some one here from beyond the u Father of Wa¬ 
ters,” who could tell you in better language than I can, the 
story of the West; hut, coming as I do, from St. Louis, and 
from a State that has been almost torn in pieces by the demon 
of slavery, I now tender to you for the first time on such an 
occasion as this, FREE MISSOURI ! (This sentiment was 
received with a storm of applause ; and the audience, rising, 
gave three cheers for free Missouri.) 

Free Missouri, the first born of freedom, is forever redeemed 
from the reproach and sin of slavery. G-entlemen, when I look 
around me at these quiet retreats which I left twenty-five 
years ago, when I look over these northern States and see how 
they are situated, while I honor those illustrious dead and these 
living heroes who have given themselves to the cause, I cannot 
but think that it is impossible for you to appreciate as we do 
who were situated in the center of it, the great and vital impor- 


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tance of the recent contest, the dangers which surrounded us, 
and the glorious result at last attained. 

Four years ago we slept with pistols in our hands. Our 
nearest neighbors, our best friends, were changed to fiercest 
foes. In the block where I resided, containing thirteen houses, 
only two families were loyal. We were surrounded with dan¬ 
ger and with difficulty. You can't conceive what it has cost 
us to get rid of the institution of slavery in Missouri. You 
know not how many lives it has cost. Every village and every 
hamlet has been desolated. Missouri knows the cost of civil 
war. One half part of the people of each township went away, 
and one half part of all her wealth was utterly destroyed,— 
was laid waste, from one end to the other of the State. 

With all this we are infinitely in advance of what we were 
before, and we thank God for the war. (Cheers.) Without it 
we should have had the institution for half a century. It has 
relieved us constitutionally. For one I saw no way we could 
free ourselves constitutionally. For one I would have sub¬ 
mitted then and now, rather than that the Constitution in its 
letter or spirit should be violated. It is our sheet-anchor. 
But I am detaining you. I give you,—Free Missouri, now 
disenthralled. 

“ Truth crushed to earth shall rise again, 

The eternal years of God are hers, 

But Slavery, wounded, writhes in pain, 

And dies amid her worshippers.” 

In conclusion I have a single word more. On leaving Wash¬ 
ington by permission of the Secretary of War, to attend this 
meeting, I said, Mr. Secretary, will you not go ? He said, I 
have no time to go or to write a letter. I replied, I am going, 
with your permission: may I tell them how many men you 
have sent away—that you have sent off half a million of men ? 
It is one of his peculiarities never to explain himself. When 
he does a thing he lets it go and lets the Future take care of it. 
Instead of half a million said he, you may say that there have 
already been mustered out of the service, or will be in a day or 
two, 782,642 men—almost 800,000 men already sent to their 
homes ; and said he, I am arranging to send about 100,000 


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more within a few days, making 900,000 ! I replied, I would 
like to know how many you are going to keep ! He said we 
had one million of men, within two or three thousand. 

One million of soldiers on our rolls at the close of this deso- 
ting war ! Let me say to you now, that if the Secretary of 
War was the greatest organizer of war since the time of 
Cromwell, he has shown within sixty days that he is the 
greatest disorganizer of armies. If you knew the labor in¬ 
volved in disbanding in sixty days 800,000 men, it would give 
you some idea of the time and strength the Secretary of War 
devotes to his country, and his opponents would scarce treat 
him in the manner they do. 

(Three cheers for Secretary Stanton were called for and 
given with great cordiality.) 

The President :— 

I rose to propose the honor which you have antici¬ 
pated, and to say, that as there has never been a greater 
war, and as there never has been a greater army, and as there 
has never been a greater triumph, so there never has been a 
greater minister of war, or one who deserved a larger share of 
the great triumph. Please to give your attention to Glen. Car¬ 
rington, of the Class of '45. 

Gen. Carrington :— 

It was only on Saturday last, about sunset, that, eight 
hundred miles from here, I was informed by telegraph 
that I might change my place of getting orders to my mother 
State—Connecticut. Monday morning I started, and I arrived 
during the meeting of the Alumni. I did not come because 
this is my twentieth year from the time of graduating and I 
was to meet with my class. I did not come simply to rejoice 
with you. I came looking upon this as the most solemn period 
and occasion of my life. I looked upon the closing up of this 
war as the commencemenLof an era which may furnish a day- 
mark for the college of Yale as the Fourth of July has marked 
one for the nation. This war has only prospered as it has been 
instrumental in accomplishing the divine purposes—destroying 
slavery and making this a free, Christian republic. The war 


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is a monument which will mark the progress of the race in all 
time. I do not know whether Dr. Cummings is right, and 
that 1866 is to witness the great conflagration ; but I do know 
that the word of God is true, and that a nation that lives and 
fights its battles in accordance with its precepts will prosper. 

There is a gentleman sitting at this table whose father, more 
than fifty years ago was a graduate of Yale—the Rev. Noah 
Pcrter. Under his care, twenty-five or six years ago, I was pre¬ 
paring for college in the town of Farmington. One evening some 
gentlemen held a prayer meeting in the upper story of the acade¬ 
my. A company of negroes, who had been slaves, and who had 
been captured by one of our naval vessels, had been taken to that 
town, and as was usual, prayer was offered that they might re¬ 
main free and that slavery might be abolished,—when stones 
were thrown against the building, and every window was broken. 
I think public sentiment has slightly changed since then. 

I remember a discussion in my Freshman year with a class¬ 
mate who died in the rebel army. Several Sophomores deter¬ 
mined to punish me because I defended the abolitionists. I got 
all the round sticks of wood I could and placed them on Dr. 
Kane's winding stairway, so that when they came up at night 
they could go down easily. (Laughter.) In the evening they 
came : they made the first landing under different circum¬ 
stances from those which they had anticipated ; and at that 
convenient time I poured out a tub of water, and washed down 
the whole transaction. (Laughter.) But the world moves, 
and an abolitionist by this time encounters no danger of per¬ 
sonal violence from the bigots of slavery. 

I believe from this very date we open an era, grand beyond 
all description in human progress. Such a spectacle as this was 
never witnessed in Europe. Learning and science there, we do 
not find devoted to the propagation of the principles of uni¬ 
versal freedom. For all that America now is, I say, Glory to 
God, and for whatever share we have had in the great work now 
accomplished, as Christians, as the Alumni of Yale, and as fel¬ 
low-soldiers of the Republic. 


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The President :— 

I am sure that after this eloquent speech and after 
learning of General Carrington's sagacity in discovering and 
his shrewdness in thwarting the conspiracy against him in 
College, the audience will not be surprised to learn that among 
his services in the war was the discovery and frustration of the 
Indiana conspiracy, by which civil war was to have been in¬ 
augurated and the rebel prisoners liberated ; hut they found 
unexpectedly some rollers on which they slid down u easily," 
(Laughter,) and some floods of popular indignation under which 
they were suffocated u easily." (Laughter and cheers.) 

I now introduce to you Brigadier-General John W. Noble, 
Chief of Cavalry of the Army of Arkansas, of the Class of '51. 

Gen. Noble :— 

Four years in the saddle is not a very good school of 
oratory. It has been my lot, I would say to General 
Parsons, to serve the government beyond the “Father of 
Waters," but it is not in my power to tell the story of the war 
in the West. My first experience was before I entered the 
service, in endeavoring to drive back the invaders from the soil 
of Missouri. I am here as one of the men whom Secretary 
Stanton has not yet reached. 

It has been my fortune to see returning in search of their 
homes, the broken masses of Lee's and Johnston's armies, and 
it has been often a subject of meditation with me, as to the 
difference between their reception at home and that of the 
brave boys in blue. They have been engaged in a deadly 
struggle in endeavoring to perpetrate the great crime and out¬ 
rage of dismembering the republic. When I have seen them 
traveling without colors, without organization, seeking to go 
home where no booming cannon, no merry bells, no martial 
music is to welcome them back, I have thought that they were 
receiving in some due measure the punishment they deserve. 
They who had risked their lives in a bad cause were to be re¬ 
ceived by ungrateful men—without a welcome ; they passed 
through cities without a single word of cheer, and subsisting on 
the way upon provisions given to them by the very government 


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they endeavored to overthrow. I wondered how different it 
would be when the national army went home. I endeavored to 
conceive the scene. But having been home on a leave of ab¬ 
sence, I have had the opportunity of seeing how the hearts of 
the people went forth toward the men who ventured and en¬ 
dured so much. When I came to this institution and found 
the preparations that had been made by Yale to receive her 
sons, the day has come when another lesson has been taught me 
in addition to those I had already learned, which proves that 
republics are not ungrateful. That sentiment—the ingratitude 
of republics—shall exist not here. It shall go back to the 
home from which it came ; it cannot be found in the warm 
hearts of the American people ; republics are grateful. I feel, 
too, on this occasion, like sending my thanks in behalf of the 
soldiers whom I represent to those who by cultivating the arts of 
peace at home and freely supplying us from the accumulations 
of years with the sinews of war, have so materially aided us 
in our work ; the paterfamilias ought not to be forgotten, and 
we give our thanks to those who, at home, performed their 
part of the great work, while the boys were in the field. I 
would also render thanks in behalf of the soldiers, to the 
women of this country who have been so thoroughly imbued 
with patriotism, and who have relieved and mitigated the suf¬ 
ferings and distress of the soldiers while away in the field. 
(Loud and prolonged cheers.) Our soldiers know when they 
come home whether they shall meet with public receptions, for 
they have learned and been cheered by the thought that the. 
people of the country are grateful to them for the duties they 
have performed. 

The President :— 

I have one more General to present to you, and he will allow 
me to say this of him—that he had an honorable and glorious 
part in an early battle, of which the whole general result was 
neither honorable nor glorious. I introduce to you Gen. 
Edward Harland, of the Class of ’53, who began his military 
service as Captain, and served at the battle of Bull Bun, and, 
on the failure of his superior officers, brought off his regiment 
in good order. 


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Gen. Harland rose amid warm applause, and in a few 
words excused himself from adding another to the speeches of 
the day. 

The Rev. Dr. William Adams, of New York, was then called 
upon to respond to the sentiment of “ The Memory of the 
Dead.” His remarks, which were made with deep feeling as 
well as beauty of expression, were unfortunately not so fully 
reported as the other addresses of the day, and it has been 
thought best not to publish here the brief outline which only 
has been preserved. 

The President :— 

Allow me to call to your attention the memory of one dead, 
who died for the whole country, and by the culminating act of 
the whole rebellion—the late President of the United States, 
and Commander-in-Chief of its army and of its navy. His 
country, and that army and that navy, triumphed over the 
power of the rebellion, while he fell a victim to its last expiring 
venom. And this company will please arise and keep silent 
while the Band plays a dirge. 

The great audience, both upon the floor and in the encircling 
galleries, rose immediately in response to the request, and for 
some moments the melancholy music of the dirge alone broke 
the stillness of the Hall. 

When the Band had finished the piece, the President re¬ 
sumed by saying : 

We have a little matter of business, gentlemen, which now 
requires our attention. We are to determine, by such confer¬ 
ences and consultations as we may be able to unite in, upon 
some permanent form of memorial for the honored dead 
and the honorable living who have served in the war ; and 
the Committee will soon present to you their views on this 
subject; but I have great pleasure in calling first for some 
remarks from one who was a soldier of the war, a Colonel in 
the service, a civil magistrate in the military occupation of the 
city of New Orleans, and who, for the second time, has been 
returned a Representative in Congress—the Hon. Henry C. 
Deming, of Hartford. 


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Col. Eeming :— 

Mr. Chairman :—If I was called upon to raise a Regiment, 
and should he guided in the choice of a recruiting ground by 
my a 'priori deductions, instead of the facts and experience 
which have been developed by this War, I should throw out 
my flag and beat my drum in every other place, before I ap¬ 
proached the quarters where the Alumni of Colleges most do 
congregate. The Scholar and the Soldier are not apt to sprout 
from the same root or grow upon the same bush. The Scholar 
is not apt to mount the shoulder-straps, nor is the Soldier apt 
to covet these four-cornered skull caps of the Oxford pattern. 
There is no affinity between the training and profession of the 
one, and the training and profession of the other, and no such 
sympathy or agreement between the two, as to induce any 
shrewd recruiting officer to expect that recruits would be 
drawn from the ranks of the one to the ranks of the other. 
On the contrary, the pursuits and culture of the two profes¬ 
sions are diverse and repellent. The office of the Scholar is to 
control mankind by argument and persuasion, through the 
reason and the emotions ; the office of the Soldier is to over¬ 
come mankind by the brutum fulmen, and to break down their 
physical and moral resistance, by all the agencies and terrors 
of violence and destruction. And yet, we are here to-day, Mr. 
Chairman, to commemorate the imposing fact, that more than 
five hundred of the children of Yale, abjuring all their antece¬ 
dents, reversing all the conditions and hopes and currents of 
their life, have, with unblanched cheeks, and untrembling 
hearts, followed the Eagles of the imperiled Republic, master¬ 
ing the drill with the ease which they acquired in mastering 
the Grammar and the Oar, bearing privation and hardship 
with more stamina and less grumbling than their messmate, 
Hodge who was a farmer, and Kelly who was a hod-carrier ; 
waking the echoes of the forest and the mountain, with “ Upi 
dee” and “ Gaudeamus” inspiriting their own enthusiasm on 
the march and the bivouac, by a couplet of old Homer's, or a 
triumphant ode of Pindar's, or a martial strain of Tacitus, and 
beckoned on to deeds of daring and glory by airy leaders, whom 


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Hodge and Kelly cannot see, the whole troop of classic heroes 
from Agamemnon to Germanicus. 

I knew one student martyr, a graduate of a Western Col- 
lege, a youth of brilliant promise, of unblemished life, and of 
scholarly tastes and accomplishments, who led a forlorn hope 
against one of the rebel bulwarks which guarded the gates of 
Georgia, cheering up his own manliness, on his march to cer¬ 
tain death, by reciting aloud a strain from one of Macaulay's 
lays, and just as the fatal Minie pierced his noble and chival¬ 
rous heart, was heard exclaiming— 

Then outspake brave Horatius, 

The Captain of the gate: 
t! To every man upon this earth 
Death cometh soon or late, 

And how can man die better 
Than facing fearful odds, 

For the ashes of his fathers 
And the temples of his gods, 

And for the tender mother 
Who dandled him to rest, 

And for the wife who nurses 
His baby at her breast ?” 

It is certainly worth while to spend a minute in searching 
for the motive, or interior force, which from the still air of de¬ 
lightful studies, from pulpit, bar, bench, hall of legislation 
and other cloistered and sequestered stations of duty and 
interest, could drive forth this full battalion of educated and 
thoughtful men, into the turmoil of camp life, into the roaring 
and perilous front of battle. 

There was a word in the dictionary, when I was in College, 
expressing one of the cardinal virtues of the human soul, of 
which we read much in Plutarch and Livy, which we were told 
was lively and demonstrative in the Revolutionary War, which 
we heard sometimes alluded to in Fourth of July orations, for 
the purpose of rounding a period or winging a metaphor, but 
which we were inclined to treat with contempt and disdain ; 
sceptical as to its existence, regarding its pretensions to super¬ 
lative love of country, as false and hypocritical, classifying it 
with the mock Republicanism of Horace Walpole, with the 


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affected misanthropy of Byron ; regarding it as too superfine 
and transcendental for common use, or as obsolete, like the 
knight-errantry of Don Quixote. And was there anything 
strange in all this ? It was a time of profound Peace ; no 
danger at home or abroad threatened the sole object of Pat¬ 
riotism’s adoration, and, in those days it was fresh in every 
scholar’s mind, that Dr. Johnson, in an assemblage of the 
most refined and intellectual Englishmen of his time,—Burke 
and Gibbon and Sir Joshua Keynolds and Goldsmith and Dr. 
Percy being present, and Charles Fox himself in the chair— 
that Dr. Johnson, the stoutest thinker and sturdiest moralist 
of his age, had ventured to define Patriotism as ce the last 
refuge of a scoundrel.” In short, we regarded Patriotism as the 
demagogue’s stock in trade, and had so little faith in it, that 
we had pretty well made up our minds, that however worthy 
it might be of the ignobile vulgus , it was beneath the sub¬ 
limated notice of us, elect and laureled scholars of the land, 
and that if we cherished it at all, it should be cherished only 
for ad'Captandum and Buncombe purposes. “ Dulce et deco¬ 
rum est pro patria mori ,” we believed in, just as Lucian be¬ 
lieved in Zeus and Poseidon ; just as Bishop Colenso believed 
in the Pentateuch , or a pardoned slave holder in the Emancipa¬ 
tion Proclamation. 

Hot six months before the day when, for his country’s sake, 
Theodore Winthrop leaped into the jaws of death, as into the 
arms of blooming joy, I heard a clergyman spend a third of 
his sermon in proving that Patriotism was no sham, but a real, 
genuine thing. 

But we live to learn ; the fiery trial through which the na¬ 
tion has just passed has dissipated many old errors, and incul¬ 
cated many new and important lessons, and, among other 
things, has demonstrated that Patriotism is not an unreal, un¬ 
substantial, mythical, spurious sentiment, but a vital, ever liv¬ 
ing, inoradicable and irresistible force of the soul, and that 
even our thrift, and mammonism, and materialism, and our 
insatiate and repugnant thirst for individual advancement, has 
not entirely extinguished disinterested and self-sacrificing love 
of country in the American bosom. Though silent here,°it has 


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not been dumb, though passive not paralyzed, though dormant 
not dead. In a revolutionary convulsion, its influence has 
been sufficiently potent upon our College household, to 
transmute men of contemplation into men of action, men of 
thought into men of fire, men of peace into men of war, or in 
two words, Scholars into Soldiers, and it has been suffi¬ 
ciently potent, too, to induce scores of them to lie down in 
death for their country as they would lie down to dream. 

Yes ! Yes, oh sceptic and scoffer ! making all the allowances 
which you are ready to claim for the base, the mean, the sor¬ 
did and the selfish motives which enter into all our actions, 
you must still recognize, in the alacrity with which the children 
of Old Yale have rushed to the embrace of Death, the pristine 
power, the old, the dear, the familiar inspiration of that imme¬ 
morial Spartan, Theban, Athenian, Roman, Teutonic devo¬ 
tion to Fatherland, which, more signally than any other virtue 
through the vast sweep of history, has vindicated, aye, and 
still vindicates, the Divine parentage, and the genuine nobility 
of Man. “ Oh, it was the magnitude of the crisis,” I hear some 
one say ; “ it was the moral and political interests involved ; it 
was the weighty questions put in issue by the War, whether 
State Sovereignty should predominate over the National Gov¬ 
ernment, whether human bondage should continue to satirize 
our pretensions to religion and civilization, whether the politi¬ 
cal equality of every human being should continue to be abro¬ 
gated by the absurd tyrannies of color and caste,—it was the 
weight of these questions which contributed vastly to the self- 
dedication of so many sons of Yale to the military service of 
the Republic.” All this is doubtless in a measure true, for all 
these weighty issues appeal with peculiar emphasis to the pat¬ 
riotism of scholars \ and yet what after all are these momen¬ 
tous interests, of which you speak, but part and parcel of that 
country which it is the peculiar and elect function of patriotism 
to shelter and embrace as an indivisible whole. The national 
aegis which shields you, the laws which protect and emich you, 
the customs which characterize the land, are these less youi 
country than the cities and towns which you inhabit, the 
houses in which you dwell, the acres which you till, the insen- 


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sate earth beneath your feet, the changeful skies above you ? 
No ! no ! government, laws, institutions, customs, the College 
which reared you, the holy altars of your communions and 
worship, old traditions, home life, social ties, domestic virtues, 
earth, air and water, are all your country. (Applause.) 

To this devoted hand who have thus gone forth to toil and 
bleed that we might rest and enjoy—to those who have con¬ 
quered liberty for a class and national existence for a people— 
to these Scholar-Soldiers who have contributed so much to the 
honor and renown of our University and to the standing and 
position of the commonwealth of letters, shall we not be grate¬ 
ful ? Oh yes, certainly grateful ! Your processions, ovations, 
banquets ; these will do for the living ; but what for those who 
can no longer see and hear and feel ! What for the dead ! 
What for those youthful martyrs filled to overflowing with 
vigorous and sanguine life, with affections, aspirations, hopes, 
yearnings, infinite capacities, heaven-soaring thoughts and 
fancies, instantly sent 

“ To lie in cold obstruction and to rot, 

This sensible, warm motion to become 
A kneaded clod—” 

that you might live and thrive and exult and glorify ; what, 0, 
what for these ? In behalf of these departed comrades, how 
impotent, how insignificant are all the resources of affection ! 
Next to that immortality which conveys to us a conscious and 
glorified personal existence in the assembly of the just made 
perfect, no boon is more coveted by the thoughtful spirit than 
the immortality which insures us an everlasting existence in 
the memory of mankind. If we could summon to this pre¬ 
sence some martyred alumnus we have just laid in an honored 
grave, and with tears in our eyes and hearts upon our lips, 
expect him to answer the question—What, 0, faithful soldier, 
can we do for thee ? how could he respond to our appeal but 
by murmuring—“Kemember me/' What was the parting 
injunction of divine wisdom and forecast incarnated in Mary's 
Son, but, “ This do in remembrance of me.” And even since 
He has ascended to the bosom of His Father, and been crowned 
with the unalloyed fruition of that blessed and glorious realm, 



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He has constantly ratified by His benediction the memorial of 
Himself which He instituted upon earth, thus suggesting to us 
the comforting assurance, that a permanent place in the mem¬ 
ory of mortals may not he unacceptable to that expanded 
intelligence which our immortal martyrs may have obtained in 
heaven. 

We are thus, my friends, drawn as it were to the practical 
conclusion, that the only way in which we can vindicate our 
gratitude to the dead, is by ordaining and establishing an en¬ 
during memorial, which shall be an eternal and unceasing 
proclamation to mankind of their names and achievements. 
It is not for me to draw, or describe in detail, what such a 
memorial should be, but I may be permitted to mention some 
general conditions, qualities and characteristics, which we should 
seek to attain. 

Let us for once, at least, in the long history of our frugal 
Alma Mater , be not over scrupulous about the expense. 
There is certainly one thing in life that cannot be estimated 
by money, and that is life itself. When we can give to these 
dead benefactors nothing but remembrance, let us give them 
that in magnificent setting. The gratitude must be hollow 
and spurious as the love of a fribble or the oath of a dicer, 
which can consent to weigh out dollars against blood, or pro¬ 
test any draft drawn upon it by its martyred redeemers. If 
there is not soul enough left in us to give liberally to repay 
such an obligation, let us forthwith hand over our carcasses to 
the medical college as only fit for anatomical purposes. 

The memorial should be accessible ; so that student, citizen, 
visitor, stranger, can be constantly reached by its appeal— 
“ Remember.” It should be secluded in no gallery under watch 
and ward of a doorkeeper, in no hall under the keys of a jani¬ 
tor, and open to the public only on grand occasions ; and I 
should as soon think of burying my only child in one of those 
groves where our Milesian friends hold their picnics and their 
Donneybrook fairs, as of erecting a memorial to our martyrs in 
any place devoted to the gala days and festivities of the Col¬ 
lege. The loud laugh, the joke, the song, would grate horribly 
on the sensibilities which should be awakened in the imme- 


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cliate presence of this tribute of sorrow, piety, and love to the 
mourned and lost. Could my wishes prevail, the memorial 
should be reared in some solemn sanctuary, where, through the 
tinged window, the many hued light of heaven may fall soft 
and gently upon it, but a sanctuary always open to every wor¬ 
shipper susceptible of gratitude and capable of memory ; 
connected, perhaps, by some Arcade or Corridor with the habi¬ 
tual place of worship, within hearing certainly of the pealing 
organ, the exultant Laudamus , the wailing Miserere ,—within 
sight of the golden censer, tilled with prayer and praise, pure 
and uncontaminated, which is daily here presented to our 
Almighty Deliverer, that its appeals may be addressed to our 
minds when they are subdued by penitence, humbled by the 
contemplation of infinite power and justice and mercy, soft¬ 
ened by the immediate presence of the agonies of Gethsemane 
and that sublimest of all sacrifices on Calvary, chastened by 
reflection upon our own transit, sudden and awful as theirs, it 
may be,—inevitable it surely is, to 

“ The undiscovered country, from whose bourne 
No traveler returns.” 

Such are the associations I would solicit, such is the genius 
loci I would covet for a memorial to these martyred Alumni. 

It should be capable of expansion ; that it may grow as our 
means grow, increase as our fervors increase, and as the patri¬ 
otism, pride and piety of successive Classes shall develop 
itself and solicit expression. Room should be left for future 
heroes in a College Pantheon, so that at some distant day, 
past, present and future heroism may all be allied and united 
in one grand apotheosis. 

It should be clear and perspicuous; that the most Boeotian 
intellect, which shall hereafter succeed in securing a matricu¬ 
lation here, may fully comprehend at least one important les¬ 
son of his College course, love and reverence to those prede¬ 
cessors who have struggled and died, that he may stagnate 
and blunder in ease and security. It should be suggestive , that 
every impressible mind may incorporate itself with its purpose 
and mission ; artistic , that it may appeal to the imagination 
and fancy as well as to reason and memory; enduring , that 


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its injunction to “remember,” may be served upon every gen¬ 
eration of students “ till the last syllable of recorded time.” 

Within the precincts of this ancient University, which has 
already done so much for the American mind, and which 
through an unmeasured Future will gather to its fold the 
young, the aspiring, the intelligent of a regenerated land, 
under the guardianship of its piety, wrought with all the 
witchery and embellishments of its highest art, visible to every 
eye, intelligible to every understanding, suggestive to every 
imagination, let this proud testimonial rise ; and let it stand a 
perpetual monument of the heroism and devotion of its mar¬ 
tyred Alumni, allying the heroes of the Past with the genera¬ 
tions of heroes yet to come ; let it stand, long as the foundation 
of the London merchant shall endure, long as the blue waters 
of the Sound shall wash these verdant shores, long as those 
granite sentinels shall overlook this classic plain ; let it stand, 
through all coming time, the holy altar, the tutelary shrine 
of patriotic ardor and enthusiasm, the trysting place of repub¬ 
lican Loyalty and Love. (Loud applause.) 

The Committee upon the Permanent Memorial for the Dead 
were now called upon by the President for their report, and it 
was read by their Chairman, Prof. Edward E. Salisbury, 
as follows : 

The Committee appointed in June last, to consider and re¬ 
port to this assembly what, in their opinion, would be the most 
permanent memorial to be placed on the grounds of Yale 
College, in honor of those of its graduates, or non-graduate 
students, who have died in the service of their country during 
the war just closed, respectfully report through the under¬ 
signed as follows : 

We have mingled our congratulations, giving some expres¬ 
sion to our grateful joy, in the presence and in honor of the 
survivors among those of our brethren who have so nobly 
devoted themselves to the service of their country during these 
last years of revolutionary convulsion and alarm. We have 
also been led to deeply ponder our obligations to the illustrious 
dead, and to dwell, I trust not in vain, upon our duties as the 

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inheritors of the blessings purchased by their blood. But it 
remains for us to perform a duty as yet only cursorily noticed, 
to our departed heroes, to those who have given more than all 
others, their lives, for the salvation of the republic. They, 
indeed, may look down, from their height of glory, upon all 
these demonstrations of imperfect human feelings, of our short¬ 
sighted enthusiasm, with more of commiseration than of plea¬ 
sure. The widening of their range of vision, by translation to 
immortality, may have incapacitated them for sympathy with 
our narrow views, limited by the conditions of earthly life. 
Yet we owe it to ourselves, and to posterity, to prove that we 
apprehend something of the wide-reaching scope of their heroic 
self-devotion, and are not wholly devoid of affinity of spirit 
with them, and to help to secure to succeeding generations the 
inspiration of their patriotism. 

Having considered various plans for a permanent memorial 
to the honor of our fallen heroes, your Committee are of opinion 
that none which has suggested itself would be so appropriate 
and impressive as a Commemorative Chapel, connected with, 
though distinct from, the house of worship, for which the 
necessary funds are already provided, in part, by the munifi¬ 
cence of one of the friends of our University, and which, it is 
hoped, will soon be built. What your Committee would 
recommend is, the erection of an appendage to the Chapel of 
the University, whenever the building of the latter shall be 
undertaken, opening into it in the form of a cella or subordin¬ 
ate chapel, to be forever consecrated to the memory of those 
who have given their lives for their country, where shall be set 
up at once votive tablets to their honor, and where offerings of 
praise and gratitude, in storied windows, emblematic bas- 
reliefs, or groups of statuary, busts, and the like, may be 
accumulated, from time to time, under proper oversight and 
control. 

This plan seems to us to commend itself above all others, 
whether we would put the highest mark of honor upon the 
devotion of our martyrs to national union and liberty, or would 
most effectually provide that their heroism may deeply impress 
the minds of the living. For, as to the former object, what 


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lustre can be thrown around patriotic self-sacrifice, equal in 
honor to the halo of religious association, presenting it as 
action performed “ in the name of our God,” in the spirit of 
obedience to Him, and for the great cause of His dominion on 
earth ? and, as respects influence upon the living, we need 
only remind you how much of impressiveness all monuments 
acquire from the fact of their being set up in connection with 
places of worship ; not that we would inaugurate any sort of 
hero-worship, but simply because in all places dedicated to the 
worship of God the sensibilities are naturally bestirred and 
refined, selfish coldness is for a while, at least, thrown off, and 
the spirit is wont to be somewhat more than elsewhere attuned 
to sympathy with what is beautiful and grand in character, 
word, or conduct. Your Committee would further direct 
attention to the expansiveness of this place, which not merely 
provides for temporary commemoration, but also invites to 
the continued fostering of patriotic feeling, as well as to the 
gratification of individual admiration, and of the justifiable 
pride of Classmates in the noble deeds of their associates, 
whenever other circumstances may allow it. 

EDWARD E. SALISBURY, 

In behalf of a majority of the Committee. 

Upon motion, this Report was adopted by the meeting, and 
the following gentlemen appointed a Committee, with power 
to add to their number, to perfect the plans and collect the 
necessary funds for the proposed memorial:— 

Prof. Edward E. Salisbury, 

Rev. Horace Bushnell, D. D., 

Hon. Asahel Huntington, 

Rev. William Adams, D. D., 

Alphonso Taft, Esq., 

Joshua Coit, Esq., 

Henry Day, Esq., 

Major Henry Hitchcock, 

Joseph E. Sheffield, Esq., 

George J. Pumpelly, Esq., 

Richard S. Fellowes, Esq., 


New Haven. 
Hartford. 
Salem, Mass. 
New York. 
Cincinnati, 0. 
New Haven. 
New York. 

St. Louis, Mo. 
New Haven. 
Oswego, N. Y. 
New Haven. 


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Charles J. Stille, Esq., 

Philadelphia. 

W. W. Phelps, Esq., 

New York. 

Edmund Dwight, Esq., 

New York. 

Hon. John P. Putnam, 

Boston. 

Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, 

New York. 

Hou. Dwight Foster, 

Boston. 

Wm. M. Evarts, Esq., LL. D., 

New York.>. 

Charlton T. Lewis, Esq., 

New York. 

Col. Henry C. Deming, 

Hartford. 

Prof. Andrew D. White, 

Syracuse. 

Prof. Daniel C. Gilman, 

New Haven. 

Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, D. D., 

New York. 

Prof. Benjamin Silliman, 

New Haven. 

Prof. Franklin W. Fiske, 

Chicago. 

Robert W. Forbes, Esq., 

New York. 

Walter B. Hatch, Esq., 

New York. 

Charles Tracy, Esq., 

New York. 

Edmund D. Stanton, Esq., 

New York. 


The hour of eight o'clock, which had been fixed for the de¬ 
livery of the annual Oration before the Phi Beta Kappa So¬ 
ciety, being now near at hand, the President announced to the 
assembly, that the time for adjournment had arrived,—and so 
ended a day, felt by all to have been fitly spent in honor of 
those true sons of Yale who have also proved themselves true 
sons to their country. 


II 


THE HOLE OF HONOR 




The following list includes the names of graduates known to have served the 
country in the Army and Navy during the war. In the several Classes, names of 
non-graduate members will be found appended, enclosed in brackets. In every 
case is added the final rank attained, so far as known. No attempt has been made 
to collect the names of uncommissioned Surgeons, serving in hospitals at home, or 
of agents of the Sanitary and Christian Commissions. 

The list is necessarily imperfect, but it is hoped that all persons able to add any 
information, (especially concerning themselves,) however slight, will forward such 
information to the undersigned. 

Franklin B. Dexter. 

Yale College, Feb., 18G6. 

ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT. 

1804. 

Rev. John Pierpont, Chaplain 22d Mass. Infantry. 

1809. 

Rev. Burr Baldwin, Hospital Chaplain U. S. A. 

1814. 

David S. Edwards, M. D., Surgeon U. S. N. 

1818. 

Rev. Joseph Hurlbut, Chaplain U. S. V. 

Rev. Joel W. Newton, Chaplain U. S. N. 

1821. 

Rev. John R. Adams, D. D., Chaplain 5th Me. and 121st N. Y. Infantry. 

John Boyd, Private, 2d. Conn. Infantry. 

1823. 

Rev. George Jones, Chaplain U. S. N. 

1825. 

John J. Abernethy, M. D., Surgeon U. S. N. 

*Rev. Joseph H. Nichols, Chaplain 19th Wisconsin Infantry. 

*18G2, Dec. 11, Washington, D. C. 



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1828. 

Rev. Gurdon S. Coit, D. D., Chaplain Berdan’s 1st Regt. Sharpshooters. 
*Rev. Fitch W. Taylor, Senior Chaplain U. S. N, 

*1865, July 24, New York City. 

1820. 

*Mason F. Cogswell, M. D., Surgeon U. S. A. 

*1865, Jan. 21, Albany, N. Y. 

Daniel Ullmann, LL. D., Colonel 78th N. Y. Infantry, Brig. Gen. U. S. Y. 

1830. 

[*Rev. Gordon Winslow, M. D., D. D., Chaplain Duryee Zouaves. 

*1864, June 7, Potomac River.] 

1831. 

Rev. Chester Newell, Chaplain U. S. N. 

James C. Stuart, M. D., Surgeon 17th N. Y. Infantry. 

Alpheus S. Williams, Brig. Gen. U. S. V., Brevet Major General. 

1832. 

Rev. William W. Backus, Private 1st Kansas Cavalry. 

Cassius M. Clay, Major General U. S. Y. 

Rev. Edward 0. Dunning, Hospital Chaplain U. S. A. 

William H. Noble, Colonel 17th Conn. Infantry, Brevet Brig. General. 

1833. 

Samuel H. Bates, Sergeant 24th Mass. Infantry. 

*Rev. Robert Carver, Chaplain 7th Mass. Infantry. 

*1863, Feb. 25, Orient, L. I. 

*Rev. Hiram Doane, Chaplain 47th Ill. Infantry. 

*1863, July 22, Yicksburg, Miss. 

Rev. Zerah K. Hawley, Hospital Chaplain U. S. A. 

1835. 

Josiah Abbott, M. D., Surgeon U. S. Colored Infantry. 

Christopher C. Cox, M. D., Surgeon U. S. Y. 

Theodore Dimon, M. D., Surgeon N. Y. Yols. 

Rev. John Y. Dodge, Hospital Chaplain U. S. A. 

Rev. George A. Oviatt, Chaplain 25th Conn. Infantry. 

1836. 

Henry C. Deming, LL. D., Colonel 12th Conn. Infantry. 

Pinckney W. Ellsworth, M. D., Brig. Surgeon U. S. A. 

William S. Pierson. Colonel Commandant at Johnson’s Island, Ohio. 
[Henry W. Benham, (West Point,) Brevet Major Gen. U. S. Y.] 

1837. 

Rev. James A. Hawley, Chaplain 63d U. S. Colored Infantry. 

Ambrose Pratt, M. D., Surgeon 22d Conn. Infantry. 

Charles W. Stearns, M. D.. Surgeon 3d N. Y. Infantry. 

Rev. Andrew L. Stone, D. D., Chaplain 45th Mass. Infantry. 

1838. 

ev. James B. Crane, Hospital Chaplain U. S. A. 


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Edmund L. Dana, Colonel 143d Penn. Infantry. 

Rev. Joel G-rant, Chaplain 12th Ill. Infantry. 

' Thomas M. Key, Colonel and A. D. C., U. S. A. 

[Dwight Morris, Colonel 14th Conn. Infantry.] 

1839 . 

Horace C. Peck, 1st Lieut. 9th Penn. Militia. 

*Rev. L. "Ward Smith, Hospital Chaplain U. S. A. 

*1863, Dec. 22, Germantown, Penn. 

[*David S. Cowles, Colonel 128th N. Y. Infantry. 

*1863, May 21, Port Hudson, La. 

*Francis M. McLellan, M. D., Surgeon N. Y. Marine Art., and 13th N. Y. Art. 
*1863, Nov. 12, Maspeth, L. I.] 

1840 . 

Josiah Curtis, M. D., Brig. Surgeon U. S. V. 

Rev. Richard Y. Dodge, Hospital Chaplain U. S. A. 

John P. Head, M. D., Surgeon U. S. A. 

Rev. Horace James, Chaplain 25th Mass. Inf., Capt. and A Q. M., U. S. Y. 
Lewis B. Parsons, Brig. Gen. U. S. Y. in charge of Bureau of Transportation. 
Charles S. Shelton, M. D., Surgeon Bissell’s Engineers, Mo. Infantry. 

1841 . 

Rev. Albert Paine, Resident Chaplain, Fortress Monroe. 

[William Birney, Brig. Gen. U. S. Y. 

Francis P. Blair, Jr., Major General U. S. Y.] 

1842 . 

Rev. Alexander H. Clapp, Chaplain 10th R. I. Infantry. 

Rev. Samuel W. Eaton, Chaplain Ith Wisconsin Infantry. 

Sylvester Larned, Lieut. Colonel 2d Mich. Infantry. 

Theodore Runyon, Major General N. J. Militia, (3 months in field). 

Samuel W. Skinner, M D., Surgeon 1st Conn. Artillery. 

Rev. Prof. Eliphalet Whittlesey, Chaplain Me. Inf., Col. 46th U. S. Colored Inf. 

1843 . 

*Rev. James H. Dill, Chaplain 38th Ill. Infantry. 

*1863, Jan. 14, near Nashville, Tenn. 

Rev. Isaac M. Ely, Hospital Chaplain U. S. A. 

*Prof. Joseph S. Hubbaad, U. S. N. 

*1863, Aug. 16, New Haven, Conn. 

Rev. Cyrus Huntington, Chaplain 1st Md. Infantry. 

*John M. Huntington, Captain and A. Q. M., U. S. Y. 

*1864, Oct. 10, Marietta, 0. 

Henry A. Weeks, M. D., Col. 12th N. Y Infantry. 

[Charles C. Gilbert, (West Point,) Major 19th U. S. Infantry.] 

1844 . 

Charles H. Crane, M. D., Surgeon U. S. A., Brevet Brig. Gen., Acting Surg. Gen. 
Orris S. Ferry, Colonel 5th Conn. Infantry, Brig. Gen. U. S. Yols. 

Thaddeus Foote, Colonel 10th Mich. Cavalry. 

Wait R. Griswold, Assist. Surg. 22d Conn. Inf., Surgeon 86th U. S. Colored Inf. 
Joseph K. Merritt, M. D., Assistant Surgeon U. S. A. 

Charles H. Rogers, M. D., Assistant Surgeon 11th Conn. Infantry. 


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James A.. Sheldon, Captain Yt. Cavalry, 

Nathaniel W. Taylor, M. D., Hospital Steward. 

1845 . 

Henry B. Carrington, Colonel 18th U. S. Infantry, Brig. Gen. U. S. Y. 
George D Harrington, Captain, Yt. 

Rev. John T. Marsh, Private, Wis. Artillery. 

*James Redfield, Lieut Colonel 39th Iowa Infantry. 

*1864, Oct. 6, Allatoona Pass, Ga. 

Leonard E. Yales, 2d Lieut. 1st Del. Infantry. 

William B. Woods, Lt. Col. 76th Ohio Inf., Brigadier General U. S. Y. 

1840 . 

Henry Case. Colonel 129th Ill. Infantry, Brevet Brig. General U. S. Y. 
George E. Chester, Colonel, N. Y. 

John B. Conyngham, Lieut. Colonel 146th Penn. 

1847 . 

John Coon. Major and Paymaster, U. S. Y. 

*Othniel DeForest, Colonel 5th N. Y. Cavalry. 

*1864, Dec. 16, N. Y. City. 

Emlen Franklin, Colonel 122d Penn. Infantry. 

*Henry C. Kutz, Major and A. D. C. Major Gen. Pleasanton. 

*1862. April 24, Wilkesbarre, Penn. 

*Rev. Daniel T. Noyes, 1st Lieut. 6th Wis. Battery. 

*1862, Oct. 4. Corinth, Miss. 

Edward G. Parker, Capt.and A. A. G., Chief of Staff to Gen. Martindale. 

1848 . 

John F. Brinton, Surgeon U. S. Y. 

Henry Hitchcock, Maj. on Gen. Sherman’s Staff, and Judge Adv., Brev. Col. 
Samuel C. Perkins, 1st Lieut. 1st Phila. Light Battery, (Militia). 

Rev. Charles 0. Reynolds, Chaplain 17 th Conn. Infantry. 

*Theodore Winthrop, Major and A. D. C. to Gen. Butler. 

*1861, June 10, Great Bethel, Ya. 

1849 . 

Enoch G. Adams. Captain U. S. Y. 

Edward A. Arnold, M. D., Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S. N. 

*3heldon C. Beecher, Captain 139th N. Y. Infantry. 

*1864, June 2, Cold Harbor, Ya. 

George Benedict. M. D , Assistant Surgeon 23d Conn. Infantry. 

George Douglas, Private 22d N. G. S. N. Y., (3 months). 

Rev. Charles J. Hutchins, Chaplain 39th Wis. Infantry. 

Wdliam H. Jessup, Major 28th Penn. Militia, (3 months). 

John Oakey, Private 7th N. G. S. N. Y. 

* Andrew Upson, Captain 20th Conn. Infantry. 

*1864, Feb. 19, near Tracy City. Tenn. 

Rev. Curtiss T. Woodruff, Chaplain 6th Conn. Infantry. 

1850 . 

A. De Witt Baldwin, Private 7th N. Y. S. N. G. (30 days). 


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William Brush, Colonel 27th Iowa Infantry. 

William T. Farnham, Captain 129th N. Y. Infantry. 

*Chauncey M. Hand, Private 2d N. Y. Cavalry. 

* 1865, Oct. 5, Madison, Conn. 

Benjamin J. Horton, Captain 24th Ohio Infantry. 

G-arrick Mallery, Lieut. Colonel U. S. Veteran Reserve Corps. 

*Prof. Newton S. Manross, Ph. D.-, Captain 16th Conn. Infantry. 

*1862, Sept. IT, Antietam, Md. 

Edward Muhlenberg, 1 st Lieut. 4th U. S. Artillery. 

Sylvanus S. Mulford, M. D., Surgeon U. S. V. 

Rev. Moses C. Welch, Chaplain 5th Conn. Infantry. 

[James A. Wilcox, Col. and Provost Marshal General of 0.] 

1851 . 

William A. Atlee, Captain 50th Penn. Infantry, (Militia). 

Prof. Rufus C. Crampton, Lieut. Colonel, Ill. 

James A. Estabrook, Q. M. 3d Battalion Mass. Vol. Militia, (3 months). 
William T. Harlow, Major 57th Mass. Infantry. 

G-eorge G-. Hastings, Major 1st U. S. Sharpshooters. 

Charles G-. Hayes, Sergeant. 

John W. Noble, Colonel 3d Iowa Cavalry, Brevet Brig. Gen. 

David P. Smith, M. D., Surgeon 18th Mass. Inf., Surgeon U. S. V. 

Prof. R. Cresson Stiles, M. D., Surgeon U. S. Vols. 

George S. Tuckerman, Captain Berdan’s Sharpshooters. 

James Van Blarcom. 

William W. Winthrop, Major and Judge Advocate U. S. V., Brevet Colonel. 
[*David B. Greene ; (Williams Coll., 1852,) Captain Missouri Infantry. 

Nathan N. Withington, Sergeant 3d U. S. Vet. Reserve Corps.] 

1852 . 

Douglass Bannan, M. D., Assistant Surgeon U. S. N. 

Charles M. Bliss, 2d Lieut. 2d Vermont Infantry. 

Lebeus C. Chapin, M. D., Assistant Surgeon U. S. V. 

Rev. Prof. Jacob Cooper, Chaplain 3d Kentucky Infantry. 

John C. Dubois, M. D., Assistant Surgeon U. S. V. 

Rev. James H. Dwight, Chaplain 66th N. Y. Infantry. 

John Elderkin, M D., Assistant Surgeon 10th U. S. Colored Infantry. 
Cliaries A. Griswold, M. D., Surgeon 93d Illinois Infantry. 

Franklin G-rube, M. D., Surgeon U. S. V. 

Henry McCormick, Captain 25th Penn. Infantry, (3 months.) 

George S. Mygatt, Lieut. Colonel 41st Ohio Infantry. 

Samuel C. Robinson, M. D., Surgeon U. S. N. 

Rev. N. W. T. Root, Chaplain 9th R. I. Infantry. 

William B. Ross, Private Tth N. G. S. N. Y. (3 months.) 

Rev. Charles C. Salter, Chaplain 13th Conn. Infantry. 

Rev. Moses Smith, Chaplain 8th Conn. Infantry. 

Homer B. Sprague, Lieut. Colonel 13th Conn. Infantry. 

Melancthon Storrs, M. D., Surgeon 8tli Conn. Infantry, Brig. Surgeon. 


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Frederick B. Swift, Private 7 th N. Y. S. N. G-. (3 months). 

Adrian Terry, Lieut. Colonel, and A. A. G-., U. S. Y. 

[William M. Este, (Harvard College, 1852,) Major and A. D. C., U. S. Y. 
*H. Watson McNeil, Colonel Penn. (“Bucktail Regiment.”) 

*1862, Sept. It, Antietam, Md. 

George S. Williams, Capt. 19tli Conn. Infantry.] 

1853 , 

Theodore Bacon, Captain 7th Conn. Infantry. 

Benjamin F. Baer, Captain 122d Penn. Infantry. 

George W. Baldwin, Captain and A. A. G., U. S. Yols. 

Albert W. Bishop, Lieut. Colonel 1st Arkansas Cavalry, and Brig. Gen. 
Hudson Burr, Capt. and A. A. G. U. S. Y. 

*William S. Denniston, M. D., Assistant Surgeon 38th N. Y. Infantry. 
*1862, July 22, James River, Ya. 

Jeremiah E. Greene. Captain 15th Mass. Infantry. 

Edward Harland, Colonel 8th Conn. Infantry, Brig. Gen. U. S. Yols. 

Rev. Theodore J. Holmes, Chaplain 1st Conn. Cavalry. 

William M. Hudson, M. D., Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S. A. 

John A. W. Jones, Quartermaster’s Department of Western Ya. 

Wayne McYeagh, Colonel Penn. Cavalry, (Militia). 

Thomas P. Nicholas, Major, Kentucky Yols. 

Samuel B. Spooner, Major 46th Mass. Infantry. 

Henry P. Stearns, M. D., Surgeon 1st Conn. Infantry, Brig. Surg. U. S. Y. 
Richard Waite, Captain 84th 0. Infantry. 

[Isaac H. Bromley, Capt. 18th Conn. Infantry. 

Charles H. Whittelsey, Brevet Colonel and A. A. G., U. S. Y.] 

1854 , 

Charles T. Alexander, M. D., Surg. U. S. A. 

Bennet J. Bristol, Surgeon 59th U. S. Colored Infantry. 

Jedediah K. Burnham, Private 16th Penn. Infantry. 

J. Tillotson Clarke, Private 20th Conn. Infantry. 

Prof. Carroll Cutler, Lieut. 84th Ohio Infantry, (3 months). 

Rev. William R. Eastman, Chaplain 7 2d N. Y. Infantry. 

Elizur Hitchcock, Assistant Surgeon 1th Ohio Infantry. 

Henry E. Howland, Captain 22d N. G. S. N. Y. 

George DeF. Lord, 1st Lieut. 22d N. G. S. N. Y., (3 months). 

William H. Palmer, Surgeon 3d N. Y. Cavalry. 

Ira W. Pettibone, Colonel 10th Conn. Infantry. 

Leander H. Potter, Colonel 33d Ill. Infantry. 

*James C. Rice, Lieut. Colonel 44th N. Y. Infantry, Brig. Gen. U. S. Y. 
*1864, May 11, Spottsylvania C. H., Va. 

Francis H. Slade, Sergeant 22d N. G. S. N. Y r ., (3 months). 

Orson C. Sparrow, Assistant Surgeon U. S. Y. 

*Lewis L. Weld, Lieut. Colonel 7th U. S. Colored Infantry. 

*1865, Jan. 10, Point of Rocks, Ya. 

Rev. Erskine N. White, Acting Chaplain 22dN. G. S. N. Y. 

[* Augustus W. Dwight, Lieut. Colonel 122d N. Y. Infantry. 

*1865, March 25, near Patrick’s Station, Ya. 


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0. Clinton Latimer, Surgeon 139th Ill. Infantry. 

*John McConihe, Lieut. Colonel 169th 1ST. Y. Infantry. 

Alfred Mitchell, Captain 13th Conn. Infantry. 

William S. Shurtleff, Colonel 46th Mass. Infantry. 

Stewart L. Woodford, Col. 103d U. S. Col’d Inf., Brevet Brig. General U. S. V.] 

1855 . 

Charles J. F. Allen, Paymaster and Major U. S. A. 

Judson B. Andrews, M. D., Assistant Surgeon 2d Conn. Artillery. 

William L. Avery, Captain and A. D. C. Major General Granger. 

Nathaniel W. Bumstead, Captain 45th Mass. Infantry. 

Henry T. Chittenden, Ohio Militia. 

I. Edwards Clarke, Colonel and Marshal of U. S. Provisional Court of La. 

Elijah Cone, Private 4th Wisconsin Infantry. 

Martin B. Ewing, Lieut. Colonel 2d Ohio Heavy Artillery. 

Josiah W. Harmar, Private 1st Phil. Light Battery, (Militia). 

Rev. Hiram L. Howard, Chaplain 59th Mass. Infantry, (Colored). 

Van Buren Hubbard, Assistant Surgeon U. S. A., and Brevet Major. 

David L. Huntington, M. D., Assistant Surgeon U. S. A. 

Simeon T. Hyde, 1st Lieut. 15th Conn. Inf., and A. D. C. Gen. Harland. 
Alexander McD. Lyon, Paymaster U. S. A. 

John H. Piatt, Captain and A. D. C. Gen. Sigel, Brevet Major U. S. A. 

Granville T. Pierce, Paymaster U. S. N. 

Prof. Alfred P. Koekwell, Capt. 1st Conn. Light Battery, Col. 6th Conn. Inf. 
Franklin A. Seely, Captain and A. Q. M., U. S. V. 

♦George Stuart, 1st Lieut. 13th U. S. Infantry. 

*1863, July 11, Sherman, Conn. 

Rev. William H. Taylor, Chaplain 48th N. Y. Infantry. 

Rev. Charles M. Tyler, Chaplain 221 Mass. Infantry. 

♦William Wheeler, Captain 13th N. Y. Independent Battery. 

*1864. June 22, near Marietta, Ga. 

Andrew J. Willets, Surgeon 176th N. Y. Infantry. 

Stanley T. Woodward, Captain 41st Penn. Militia. 

[♦Frederick A. Bemis, 1st Lieut. 21st Mass. Infantry. 

*1862, Sept. 1, Chantilly, Va. 

*William S. Heath, Lieut. Colonel 5th Me. Infantry. 

*1862, June 27, Gaines’s Mills, Va.] 

1856 . 

♦Nelson Bartholomew, 1st Lieut. 15th Mass. Infantry. 

*1861, Nov. 21, Phila., Penn. 

John M. Brown, Colonel Commanding 2d Brigade, 5th Division, 23d Corps. 
*Charles E. Bulkeley, Captain 1st Conn. Artillery. 

*1864, Feb. 13. Battery Garesche, Va. 

Stephen Condit, Private 23d N. G. S. N. Y., (30 daj r s). 

Edward 0. Cowles, M. D., Assistant Surgeon 15th Conn. Infantry. 

James 0. Denmston, Captain 124th N. Y. Infantry. 

Frank Fellowes, Private 1st Conn. Infantry, (3 months). 

William T. Kittredge, Sergeant Major 2d Minn. Infantry. 


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♦Henry M. Mclntire, Lieut. Colonel 1st Penn. Reserve Infantry. 

*1863, Jan. 16, Baltimore, Md. 

Lewis E. Mills. Vol. Aid to Brig. G-en. Potter in the Yicksburgh Campaign. 
Edward P. Nettleton, Colonel 31st Mass. Infantry. 

George E. H. Pease, Captain Ill. Infantry. 

♦Frank H. Peck, Colonel 12 th Conn. Infantry. 

*1864, Sept. 20, Opequan Creek, Ya. 

John T. Price, Captain 5th U. S. Infantry. 

David P. Richardson, Commissary 6th N. Y. Cavalr} r . 

John B. Stickney, Captain 35th Mass. Infantry. 

Wager Swayne, Colonel 43d Ohio Infantry, Brig. Gen. U. S. Y. 

Rev. Edward A. Walker, Chaplain 1st Conn. Artillery. 

♦Samuel F. Woods, 1st Lieut, and Adj. 34th Mass. Infantry, A. A. A. G. Staff or 
Gen. Weber. 

*1864, June 26, Worcester, Mass., (wounded at Piedmont, Ya.) 

[♦Daniel M. Mead, Major 10th Conn. Infantry. 

*1862, Sept. 20, Greenwich, Conn. 

Samuel T. C. Merwin, Captain 18th Conn. Infant^. 

Sidney A. Moulthrop, Hospital Steward U. S. A. 

♦Horton R. Platt.] 

1857 . 

Edwin Barrows, Quartermaster Sergeant 4th Mass. Infantry. 

Theodore W E. Belden, Engineer 134th Illinois Infantry. 

♦Rev. Francis E. Butler, Chaplain 25th N. J. Infantry. 

*1863, May 4, Suffolk, Ya. 

Myron N. Chamberlin, Private 27th Conn. Infantry. 

Joseph A. Christman, Private 6th 0. Infantry. 

John T. Croxton, Brig. Gen. U. S. Yols. 

Rev. Henry S. DeForest, Chaplain 11th Conn. Infantry. 

William E. Doster, Colonel 5th Penn. Cavalry. 

♦Albert W. Drake, Colonel 10th Conn. Infantry. 

*1862, June 5, South Windsor, Conn. 

Edward L. Duer, M. D., Acting Assistant Surgeon. 

♦Henry M. Dutton, 1st Lieut. 5th Conn. Infantry. 

*1862, Aug. 9, Cedar Mountain, Ya. 

James H. Grant, Lieut. Colonel 22d N. G. S. N. Y. 

♦John Griswold, Captain 11th Conn. Infantry. 

*1862, Sept. 18, Antietam, Md. 

Yolney Hickox, Capt. and A. D. C. Gen. Hunter. 

Stephen Holden, 2d Lieut. 152d N. Y. Infantry. 

Joseph C. Jackson, Captain and A. D. C. Gen. Franklin. 

Bela P. Learned, Captain 1st Conn. Artillery, Brevet Major. 

Rev. James Marshall, Hospital Chaplain U. S. A. 

♦Edward L. Porter, Captain 18th Conn. Infantry. 

*1863, June 15, Winchester, Ya. 

♦George W. Roberts, Colonel 42d Ill. Infantry. 

*1862, Dec. 31, Murfreesboro’, Tenn. 

Warren Iv. Southwick, Corporal 45th Mass. Infantry. 


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George B. Thomas, Captain 2d Penn. Infantry. 

Nathan Willey, Private 22d Conn. Infantry. 

Ephraim M. Wood, Captain 15th U. S. Infantry. 

1858 . 

William P. Bacon, Lieut. Colonel 5th N. Y. Cavalry. 

William C. Bennett, M. D., Surgeon 5th Conn. Infantry, Surgeon U. S. Y. 
♦Edward F. Blake, Major 5th Conn. Infantry. 

*1862, Aug. 9, Cedar Mountain, Ya. 

Daniel G. Brinton, Surgeon U. S. Y., Brevet Lieut. Colonel U. S. Y. 

Orlando Brown, Lieut. Colonel 14th Kentucky Infantry. 

Samuel Caldwell, Captain 8th Ill. Infantry. 

Matthew Chalmers, M. D., Assistant Surgeon U. S. N. 

George M. Franklin, Captain 122d Penn. Infantry. 

Jeptha Garrard, Colonel 1st U. S. Colored Cavalry. 

William S. Hubbell, Captain 21st Conn. Infantry. 

William F. Ingerson, Sergeant Signal Corps, U. S. A. 

William A. McDowell, 1st Lieut., and Commissary 17th Pa. Cavalry. 

William A. Magill, Hospital Steward 25th Conn. Infantry. 

Arthur Mathewson, M. D., Surgeon U S. N. 

Rev. Daniel A. Miles, Chaplain 7th N. J. Infantry. 

Robert Morris, Captain 1st N. Y. Infantry. 

Horace Neide, Lieut. Colonel 13th U. S. Yet. Reserve Corps. 

Luther H. Peirce, Lieut. Col. and A. Q. M., U. S. A., Brevet Colonel. 

Thomas A. Perkins, Sergeant 22d N. G. S. N. Y. 

Electus A. Pratt, Captain 8th U. S. Colored Infantry. 

Henry A. Pratt, 1st Lieut. 1st Conn. Heavy Artillery and Brev. Capt. 

Channing Richards, Captain 22d Ohio Infantry. 

Rev. Isaac Riley, Sergeant 7th Del. Infantry. 

Henry Royer, Colonel 53d Penn. Infantry, (Militia). 

Eben G. Scott, 1st Lieut. 5th Artillery, U. S. A. 

George F. Smith, Colonel 61st Penn. Infantry. 

Frederick W. Stevens, Private 22d N. G. S. N. Y. 

Charles Tomlinson, M. D., Assistant Surgeon 14th Conn. Infantry. 

♦Theodore W. Twining, Private 37tli N. Y. Infantry, A. A. Paymaster U. S. N. 
*1864, Aug. 14, Tampa Bay, Fla. 

Gideon Wells, 1st Lieut. 46th Mass. Infantry. 

♦Charles B. Whittlesey, Private 55tli Ohio Infantry. 

*1864, Feb. 21, Nashville, Teun. 

Albert B. Wilbur, Com’y 15th N. Y. Cavalry. 

[Frederick L. Buckelew, Adjutant 14th N. J. Infantry. 

Frederick F. Burlock, Captain 4th Arkansas Cavalry. 

*Herrick Hayner, 1st. Lieut. 1st Regiment Excelsior Brigade, (N. Y.) 

*1862, May 4, Williamsburg, Ya. 

Allison II. Norcutt, Private, Illinois. 

Charles II. Russell, Act. Chaplain Lamon’s Ya. Brigade, Major 1st Md. Cavalry. 
Jacob H. Smyser, 1st Lieut. 5th U. S. Artillery. 

Eugene R. Stevens, Private 129th Ill. Infantry. 

Herbert B. Titus, Colonel 2d N. H. Infantry.] 


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1850 . 

Charles H. Boardman, M. D., Assistant Surgeon. 

Thomas C. Brainerd, M. D., Assistant Surgeon U. S. A. 

Henry L. Breed. Corporal 44th Mass. Infantry. 

Pitts H. Burt, Private, 7th Ohio National Guard. 

*Edward Carrington, 1st Lieut, and A. D. C. Gen. Newton. 

*1865, March 6, St. Marks, Fla. 

Benjamin S. Catlin, M. I)., Surgeon 21st N. Y. Cavalry. 

Green Clay, A. 1). C. Gen. Schoepf. 

Apollos Comstock, Major 13th Conn. Infantry. 

Rev. William B. Darraeh, Chaplain 20th N. Y. S. M. 

Thomas B. Dwight, Private Landis’s Battery, Penn. Militia. 

Lester B. Faulkner, Colonel 136th N. Y. Infantry. 

Rev. William K. Hall, Chaplain 17th Conn. Infantry. 

*Diodate C. Hannahs, Captain 6th N. Y. Cavalry. 

*1862, Sept. 10, Williamsburgh, Ya. 

Charles H. Hatch, Major 13th N. Y. Cavalry 
Edward S. Hinckley, 1st Lieut. 18th Conn. Infantry. 

Henry R. Hinckley, 2d Lieut. 5th Mass. Colored Cavalry. 

Frank J. Jones, Captain and A D. C. Brig. Gen. McCook. 

Thomas R. Lounsbury, 1st Lieut. 126th N. Y. Infantry. 

Rev. Charles N. Lyman, Chaplain 20th Conn. Infantry. 

Rudolph McMurtrie. 

William H. Mather, M. D., Assistant Surgeon 173d N. Y. Infantry. 
John C. W. Moore, 2d N. H. Infantry, Hospital Department. 

Homer G. Newton, M. D., Assistant Surgeon 131st N. Y. Infantry. 
Charles L. Norton, Colonel 78th U. S. Colored Infantry. 

Truman A. Post, Adjutant 40th Mo. Infantry. 

Rev. William H. Rice, Chaplain 129th Penn. Infantry. 

William J. Roberts, Captain 8th Conn. Infantry. 

Alexander H. Stanton, Captain 16th U. S. Infantry. 

Joseph T. Tatum, Adjutant 2d Mo. Cavalry. 

Rev. Joseph H. Twichell, Chaplain 71st N. Y. Infantry. 

Rev. Henry Upson, Chaplain 13th Conn. Infantry. 

Hezekiah Watkins, Lieut. Colonel 143d N. Y. Infantry. 

*Charles M. Wheeler, Captain 126th N. Y. Infantry. 

*1863, July 4, Gettysburg, Penn. 

Charles P. Wilson, Assistant Surgeon U. S. Hospital. 

Henry Winn, Major 52d Mass. Infantry. 

[George Badger, M. D., A. A. Surgeon, U. S. A. 

William Badger, M. D., A. A. Surgeon, U. S. A. 

William P. Brooks, 2d Lieut. 29th Conn. Infantry. 

Thomas R Clark, Lieut. N. Y. 

George T Ferris, Private Sturgis’ Rifles. 

George Fisher, Lieut. Penn. Cavalry. 

Charles L. Fitzhugh, 1st Lt 4th U. S. Artillery, Brig. Gen. U. S. Y. 
Wood Fosdick. 

Frank B.. Hamilton, 1st Lieut. 3d U. S. Artillery. 


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Edward 0. Huggins, 1st Lieut., Ohio. 

William T. Lusk, M. D., Capt. and A. A. G-. 

Robert P. McKibbin, Captain 4th U. S. Infantry. 

Elbridge F. Meconkey, A. D. C. General McCall. 

Daniel S. Moulton, Captain, Mass. Yols. 

Augustus W. Nicoll, (Union Coll., 1859,) Private 7th N. Y. S. M. 

Daniel W. Scarle, Adj. 141st Penn. Infantry. 

George M. Wesson, A. A. Paymaster U. S. N.] 

1860 , 

*George W. Arnold, Sergeant 12th R. I. Infantry, 

*1862, Dec. 8, Fairfax, Ya. 

Rev. Henry E. Barnes, Chaplain 72d Ill Infantry. 

William E. Bradley, Captain 13th Conn. Infantry. 

W. Lockwood Bradley, M. D., Medical Cadet. 

William M. Bristoll, Lieut. 13th Wis. Battery. 

Richard B. Brown, M. D., Surgeon LT. S. A. 

* Henry W. Camp, Major 10th Conn. Infantry. 

*1864, Oct 13, near Richmond, Ya. 

George L. Catlin, 1st Lieut. 101st N. Y. Infantry. 

Frederick H. Colton, Assistant Surgeon. 

Clarence E. Dutton, Capt. 21st Conn. Inf., 2d Lieut. Ord. Department U. S. A. 
Daniel C. Eaton, Private 7th N. G. S. N. Y., (3 months). 

Edgar A. Finney, Captain 21st N. J. Infantry. 

William E. Foster, Acting Assistant Paymaster U. S. N. 

William Fowler, Captain and A. A. G. 

Rev. Edward B. Furbish, Chaplain 25th Me. Infantry. 

Edward L. Gaul, Lieut. Colonel 159th N. Y. Infantry. 

George W. Giddings, Private 198th Penn. Militia. 

David L. Haight, M. D., Assistant Surgeon U. S. Y. 

Rev. Henry L. Hall, Chaplain 10th Conn. Infantry. 

•‘Daniel Hebard, Captain and A. A. G. on Staff of Gen. Gorman. 

*1862, Aug. 7, N. Y. City. 

John Howard, Private 12th Mass Infantry. 

William H. Hurlbut, Private 7th N. G. S. N. Y. 

Henry L. Johnson, 1st Lieut. 5th Conn. Infantry, Captain and A. A. G. 

*Rev. William C. Johnston, Chaplain 13th Kentucky Infantry. 

*1862, Dec. 3, Mumfordville, Kentucky. 

Henry G. Marshall, Captain 29th Conn. Infantry, (Col’d). 

Rev. John M. Morris, Chaplain 8tli Conn. Infantry. 

*Frederick C. Ogden, 1st Lieut, and Adjutant 1st U. S. Cavalry. 

*1864, June 11, Trevillian Station, Ya. 

Charles II. Owen, 1st Lieut. 1st Conn. Artillery, and A. D. C. Gen. R. O. Tyler. 
John R. Parsons, Major 1st La. Infantry. 

George D. Phelps, Private 22d N. G. S. N. Y. (3 months). 

Isaac J. Post, Quartermaster 171st Penn. Infantry. 

*Rev. James H. Schneider, Chaplain 2d U. S. Colored Infantry. 

*1864, April 25, Key West, Fla. 

Pierre S. Starr, M. D., Assistant Surgeon 39th O. Infantry. 


88 


Francis R. "Way, Private 1st Phila. Light Battery, Militia. 

Xenophon Wheeler, Captain 129th 0. Infantry. 

Robert X. Willson, Private 1st Phila. Light Battery, Militia. 

Lewis S. Worthington, 2d Lieut. 6th 0. Infantry. 

[Samuel H. Davis, Captain 14th Conn. Infantry. 

Charles C. Dodge, Colonel 1st X. Y. Mounted Rifles, and Brig. Gen. U. S. Yols. 
George W. Green, 1st Lieut. 17th U. S. infantry. 

James W. Hervey, Captain 3d Mass. Cavalry. 

Rev. Samuel Jessup, Chaplain Gth Penn. Reserve Infantry. 

Kidder M. Scott, Captain, X. Y. 

William H. S. Sweet, 1st Lieut. 146th X. Y. Infantry. 

Frank W. Wiswell, Capt., 10th Me. Infantry.] 

1861 . 

*John X. Bannan, Corporal, Anderson Penn. Cavalry. 

*1863, Xov. 20, Pottsville, Penn. 

George B. Bonney, Private 10th R. I. Infantry, (3 months). 

Hubert S. Brown, Captain and A. A. G. on Major Gen. Hazen’s Staff. 

Milton Bulkley, Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S. A. 

Robert L. Chamberlain, Private 84th 0. Infantry. 

* William B. Clark, Captain 2 2d U. S. Colored Infantry. 

*1864, Oct 27, near Richmond, Ya. 

William Cook, Captain 9th U. S. Colored Infantry. 

Moulton DeForest, Captain 18th Wis. Infantry. 

George Delp, Private Penn Militia. 

William C. Egleston, 1st Lieut. 43d X. Y. Infantry. 

William C. Faxon, Captain 1st Conn. Artillery, and Brevet Major. 

Robert H. Fitzhugh, Lieut. Colonel 1st X. Y. Light Artillery. 

Joseph X. Flint, 1st Lieut. 1st X. Y. Dragoons. 

Amasa F. Haradon, Acting Master’s Mate, U. S. X. 

William H. Higbee* Acting Assistant Paymaster, U. S. X. 

Anthony Higgins, Private 7th Del. Infantry, (30 days). 

James X. Hyde, M. D., Assistant Surgeon U. S. X. 

Brayton Ives, Colonel 1st Conn. Cavalry. 

Walter F. Jones, 2d Lieut. 61st X. Y. Infantry. 

John C. Kinney, 1st Lieut. 13 th Conn. Infantry, and Acting Signal Officer. 

Isaac S. Lyon, 2d Lieut. 11th Conn. Inf., 1st Lieut. Signal Corps U. S. A. 

Oliver McClintock, Sergeant Penn. Militia. 

Edward P. McKinney, Captain of Subsistence, U. S. Y., Brevet Major. 

James W. McLane, M. D., Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S. A. 

John E. Marshall, Brevet Major and A. A. G., U. S. Y. 

Charles G. G. Merrill, M D., Surg. 22d U. S. Colored Infantry. 

Rev. Edward P Payson, Chaplain 146th X. Y. Infantry. 

*James P. Pratt, 1st Lieut, and Adjutant lltli U. S. Infantry. 

*1864, May 29, near Hanover Town, Ya. 

Francis R. Schmucker, Captain 128th Penn. Infantry. 

Rev. S. Franklin Schoonmaker, Chaplain 34th X. Y. Infantry. 

Winthrop D. Sheldon, 2d Lieut. 27th Conn. Infantry. 

Charles T. Stanton, Lieut. Colonel 21st Conn. Infantry. 


* 


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*Gilbert M. Stocking, Private 20th Conn. Infantry. 

*1865, Jan. 25, St. Louis, Mo. 

Heber S. Thompson, Captain 7th Penn. Cavalry. 

John C. Tyler, Major and A. A. G-., U. S. V. 

John R. Webster, Captain and A. Q. M., U. S. Y. 

James H. White, Adjutant 165th Penn. Cavalry. 

Ralph 0. Williams, Private 7th Del. Infantry, (30 days). 

*George Worman, Private 137th Ill. Infantry. 

*1864, Oct. 27, Cahawba, Ala. 

[Heman P. Babcock, M. D., Assistant Surgeon U. S. N. 

Andrew S. Burt, Captain 18th U. S. Infantry. 

Walter T. Chester, Captain 94th N. Y. Infantry. 

Edward Field, (Coll. N. J., 1861,) Lieut., N. J. 

*3amuel C. Glenney, Jr., Corporal 1st. Conn. Heavy Artillery. 

*1862, Sept. 15, Phila., Penn. 

James R. Gould, (Harvard, 1861.) Captain and Additional A. D. C., U. S. A. 
Horatio Jenkins, Jr., Colonel 4th Mass. Cavalry, Brevet Brig. Gen. U. S. Y. 
Oliver A. Roberts, Sergeant Major 50th Mass. Infantry. 

Thomas Skelding, Captain 10th N. Y. Infantry. 

* William J. Temple, Captain 17 th U. S. Infantry. 

*1863, May 1, Chancellorsville, Ya.] 

1862. 

A. Egerton Adams, Captain 1st N. Y. Mounted Rifles. 

*[ra R. Alexander, Captain 16th Penn. Cavalry. 

*1863, Nov. 29, Mine Run, Ya. 

George M. Beard, Acting Assistant Surgeon, U. S. N. 

Jacob S. Bockee, Captain 114th N. Y. Infantry. 

Frank H. Bos worth, Private 18th O. Infantry. 

Isaac Bowe, Private 2d Mass. Heavy Artillery. 

James F. Brown, Lieut. Colonel 21st Conn. Infantry. 

Buel C. Carter, Captain 13th N. H. Infantry, Captain and A. Q. M., U. S. Y. 
Daniel H. Chamberlain, 1st Lieut, and Adj. 5th Mass. Colored Cavalry. 

James A. Dunbar, Private Penn. Militia. 

Sherburne B. Eaton, Capt. 124th O. Inf., Capt. and A. A. G. on Gen. Hazen’s 
Staff. 

Charles W. Ely, 2d Lieut. 27th Conn. Infantry. 

Richard H. Greene, Private 7th N. G. S. N. Y. 

Eben T. Hale, Private 45th Mass. Infantry. 

* William W. House, Private 25th Conn. Infantry. 

*1863, July 24, Baton Rouge, La. 

C. Eustis Hubbard, Corporal 45th Mass. Infantry. 

Henry P. Johnston, 2d Lieut. 15th Conn. Inf. and Acting Signal Officer. 

Thomas B. Kirby, Major 44th U. S. Colored Infantry. 

Cornelius S. Kitchel, Private 136th Penn. Militia. 

Charles H. Lewis, Corporal 16th Conn. Iufantry, Hospital Steward U. S. A. 
Walter L. McClintock, Private 12th Penn. Infantry, (Militia). 

William R. McCord, 1st Lieut. 12th Mo. Cavalry. 

Franklin McYeagh, Penn. Militia. 

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90 


Harrison Maltzberger, Captain 195th Penn. Infantry. 

George C. Ripley, 1st Lieut. 10th Conn. Inf., and A. D. C. General Ferry. 
Charles H. Rowe, M. D., Assistant Surgeon 18th Conn. Infantry. 

Albert B. Shearer, Private Penn. Militia. 

♦Andrew F. Shiverick, Captain 28th Wis. Infantry. 

*1863, April 22, Memphis, Teen. 

♦Richard Skinner, 1st Lieut. 10th U. S. Infantry. 

*1864, June 22, near Petersburg, Va. 

♦Francis N. Sterling, 1st Lieut. 128th N. Y. Infantry. 

*1862, Dec. 6, at sea, off Cape Hatteras. 

Charles B. Sumner, Sergeant 45th Mass. Infantry. 

Henry W. Thajmr, Lieut 14th N. Y. Cavalry. 

[William W. Ball, (Williams Coll. 1862,) Hospital Steward 25th N. Y. Cavalry. 
James W. Cujder, (West Point,) Captain Engineer Corps, U. S. A. 

Henry M. Denniston, Paymaster U. S. N. 

Joseph L. Ferrell, A. A. Paymaster U. S. N. 

John J. Griffith, Private 14th N. Y. Infantry, (3 months). 

♦Daniel E. Hemenway, Com’y Sergeant 22d Conn. Infantry. 

*1862, Nov. 21. 

William B. Lewis, M. D., A. A.. Surgeon U. S. N. 

♦William McClurg, Private 9th Penn. Infantry. 

*1862, Oct. 12, Washington, D. C., (wounded at South Mountain, Va.) 
♦William H. Miller, Captain 44th N. Y. Infantry. 

*1862, April 30, before Yorktown, Va. 

Frank Stanwood, Captain 3d U. S. Cavalry and Brevet Major. 

♦Grosvenor Starr, Adjutant 1th Conn. Infantry. 

*1862, March 5, Tybee Island, S. C. 

Edwin Stewart, Paymaster U. S. N.] 

1863 , 

% 

George W. Allen, A. A. Paymaster, U. S. N. 

George W. Atherton, Captain 10th Conn. Infantry. 

George W. Baird, Colonel U. S. Colored Infantry. 

Edward G. Bishop, A. A. Paymaster U. S. N. 

Erastus Blakeslee, Colonel 1st Conn. Cavalry. 

♦Harvey IT. Bloom, 1st Lieut. 5th N. Y. Infantry. 

*1864, March 18, North Norwich, N. Y. 

Cornelius W. Bull, A. A. Paymaster, U. S. N. 

John H. Butler, Paymaster’s Clerk U. S. N. 

Leander T. Chamberlain, A. A. Paymaster, U. S. N. 

Rev. John B. Doolittle, Chaplain 15th Conn. Infantry. 

Thomas A. Emerson, A. A. Paymaster, U. S. N. 

Horace W. Fowler, Capt. 16th N. Y. Art. and on Div. Staff Gen. A. H. Terry. 
Henry H. Ingersoll, 1th Ohio, (3 months). 

Wilbur Ives, A. A. Pajmiaster, U. S. N. 

Edward L. Keyes, Lieut, and A. D. C. Major Gen. E. D. Keyes. 

Lewis A. Stimson, Lieut, and A. D. C. Gen. A. H. Terry. 

Henry B. Waterman. Musician 134th Ill. Infantry. 


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♦Charles Webster, Quartermaster’s Clerk. 

*1865, Aug. 11, Washington, D. C. 

Joel T. Wildman, A. A. Paymaster U. S. N. 

Amos Worman, Private 137th Ill. Infantry. 

Thomas Young, Major 127th U. S. Colored Infantry. 

[William H. Alden, Sergeant 27th Conn. Infantry. 

Samuel Appleton, 1st Lieut. 12th Mass. Inf., Capt. on Staff of Gen. Abercrombie. 
Charles J. Arms, Captain 20th Conn. Inf., on Staff of Gen. Harland. 

Howell Atwater, Captain 1st Conn. Ca^ajry. 

Theodore C. Bacon, Captain and A. A. G. to Brig. Gen. Buford. 

Henry N. Beckwith, Vt. 

Gerard C. Brown, Captain 38th N. Y. Infantry. 

Newton DeForest, Captain 2d Wis. Cavalry. 

Leonard Fletcher, Sergeant 77th N. Y. Infantry. 

William G. Grant, Engineer Corps. 

*F. Kern Heller, Private 93d Penn. Infantry. 

*1862, David’s Island Hospital, N. Y., (wounded at Fair Oaks, Ya.) 
Thomas D. Kimball, Captain 51st Mass. Inf., and 2d Mass. Heavy Artillery. 
♦Zalrnon J. McMaster, Captain 5th N. Y. Cavalry. 

♦Washington, D. C. 

♦Frederic W. Matteson, Lieut. Colonel 64th Illinois Infantry. 

*1862, Aug. 8, Corinth, Miss. 

Bobert C. Morris, Captain Wis. 

Carroll Neide, Signal Corps. 

Harry L. Orth, Medical Cadet. 

James S. Osgood, 25th Mass. Infantry. 

♦Uriah N. Parmelee, Captain 1st Conn. Cavalry. 

*1865, April 1, Five Forks, Ya. 

♦Charles A. Partridge, 17th N. Y. Infantry. 

*1865, Jan., Warsaw, N. Y. 

Oliver H. Payne, Lieut. Colonel 124th Ohio Infantry. 

Madison Sallade, Private 93d Penn. Infantry. 

George B Sanford, Captain 1st U. S. Cavalry. 

William F. Smith, Private 7th Conn. Infantry. 

♦Arthur DeN. Talcott, Private 16th Conn. Infantry. 

*1862, Dec. 3. 

Moses H. Tuttle, Mass. 

Abram G. Yerplanck, Captain 1st U. S. Art., and A. D. C. Gen. Barry. 

Stephen Whitney, 1st Lieut. 4th U. S. Artillery. 

Myron Winslow, Sergeant, N. Y. (3 months.) 

♦.Richard K. Woodruff, Captain 31st U. S. Colored Infantry. 

*1864, Aug. 11, David’s Island Hospital, N. Y., (wounded at Petersburg, 
Ya.)] 

1864 . 

Albert B. Clarke, A. A. Paymaster U. S. N. 

Charles W. Fifield, Private 18th N. H. Infantry. 

Huntting C. Jessup, 2d Lieut. U. S. Colored Infantry. 

George F. Lewis, Medical Cadet U. S. A. 


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Isaac P. Pugsley, A. A. Paymaster U. S. N. 

Henry M. Whitney, Sergeant Major 52d Mass. Infantry. 

[William P. Ames, A. A. G. 

William M. Austin, Medical Cadet U. S. A. 

Charles H. Conner, Commissary Department. 

George P. Davis, Captain 42d Mass. Infantry. 

Thomas Higgins, A. A. Paymaster U. S. N. 

William A. Kimball, Captain 2d N. Y. Cavalry. 

ObadiahM. Knapp, Captain 121st U. S. Colored Infantry. 

♦Garwood R. Merwin, Sergeant 2d Conn. Heavy Artillery. 

*1863, Jan. 23, Alexandria, Va. 

Matthew M. Miller, Captain 5th U. S. Colored Artillery, Col. Mississippi Militia. 
♦Charles C. Mills, Captain 1th Conn. Infantry. 

*1865, Jan. 29, N. Y. City. 

Charles B. Parkman, Private 20th Conn. Infantry. 

Thomas A. Porter, Lieut. 1st Del. Battery. 

John F. Randall, 1st Lieut. 21st Conn. Infantry. 

Henry M. Stille, Medical Cadet. 

♦George P. Sylvester, 2d Lieut 9th New Hampshire Infantry. 

*1864, June 5, Washington, D. C., (wounded at “the Wilderness,” Ya.) ] 

1865. 

Josiah H. Bissell, 2d Lieut. Bissell’s Engineers, M«. Infantry. 

James W. Clarke, Private, Ohio. 

John L. Ewell, Corporal 60th Mass. Infantry, (100 days). 

Marshall R. Gaines, Private 60th Mass. Infantry, (100 days). 

Charles H. Gaylord, Private 60th Mass. Infantry, (100 days). 

Charles H. Leonard, Private 45th Mass. Infantry. 

Payson Merrill, Private 60th Mass. Infantry, (100 days). 

Charles E. Smith, Private 60th Mass. Infantry, (100 days). 

William Stocking, Private 60th Mass. Infantry (100 days). 

George E. Treadwell, Color Corporal 21th Conn. Infantry. 

[George W. Allen, Captain 29th Conn. Colored Infantry. 

♦Franklin E. Ailing, Corporal 21th Conn. Infantry. 

*1862, Dec. 13, Fredericksburg, Ya. 

♦Edward L. Barnard, Private 25th Mass. Infantry. 

*1862, North Carolina. 

Robert E. Grant, Lieut. 

Charles DeF. Griffin. 

Edward W. Hayden, Lieut. Colonel U. S. Colored Infantry. 

Romulus C. Loveridge, Sergeant 2d Conn. Heavy Artillery. 

Franklin Miller. 

Albert R. Parsons, 52d Ill. Infantry. 

Henry E. Taintor. 

♦John H. Thompson, Sergeant 106th N. Y. Infantry. 

*1863, March 16, North Mountain, Ya. 

William M. Whitney, Private 21th Conn. Infantry. 

Jonathan D. Wood.] 


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I860. 

[James Brand, Sergeant 21th. Conn. Infantry. 

Henry Butler, Private 44th Mass Infantry. 

Charles B. Evarts, 1st Lieut. 1st N. Y. Cavalry. 

James T. Graves, Corporal 52d Mass. Infantry. 

Charles F. Hartwell, Acting Master’s Mate U. S. N. 

Allen M. Hiller, Lieut. U. S. A. 

Joseph P. Thompson, Jr., Capt. 2d U. S. Col’dInfantry, A. D. C. Gen. Newton.] 

1867. 

[Ira S. Dodd, Sergeant, 26th N. J. Infantry. 

George Eastburn, Corporal 11th Penn. Militia. 

Brown H. Emerson, Private Delaware Infantry, (100 days). 

Thomas Greenwood, Clerk Commissary’s Department. 

Thomas Hedge, 2d Lieut. 106th N. Y. Infantry. 

Constant R. Marks, Private 8th Mass. Infantry. 

*Edwin C. Pratt, 2d Lieut. 8th U. S. Colored Infantry. 

*1865, July 1, New Hartford, Conn. 

Benjamin Smith, Private 45th Penn. Infantry. 

Franklin M. Sprague, Captain 11th Conn. Infantry. 

Charles S: Walker, Private 131th Ohio Infantry.] 

1868. 

[Russell W. Ayres, Corporal 23d Conn. Infantry. 

George D. Ballantine, Private 193d Penn. Infantry. 

William H. Birney, Private 22d Conn. Infantry. 

John Coats, Corporal 22d Conn. Infantry. 

John K. H. DeForest, Private 28th Conn. Infantry. 

Benjamin A. Fowler, Private 50th Mass. Infantry. 

Loren L. Hicks, Private 51st Mass. Infantry. 

Beach Hill, Private 23d Conn. Infantry. 

George H. Lewis, Private 14th Conn. Infantry. 

John Lewis, Sergeant 22d Conn. Infantry. 

Stephen Pierson, Adjutant 33d N. J. Infantry. 

Thomas H. Robbins, Corporal 25th Conn. Infantry. 

Frederick W. Russell, Hospital Corps U. S. A. 

Joseph H. Sears, Private 6th Mass. Infantry. 

Nathaniel P. S. Thomas, Commodore’s Aid, U. S. N. 

*Henry S. Timmerman, Private 14th N. Y. Infantry, (3 months). 

*1865, Oct., Buffalo, N. Y. 

Henry P. Wright, Sergeant 51st Mass. Infantry.] 

THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 

1840. 

*Rev. James Averill, (Amh. College, 1831,) Chaplain 23d Conn. Infantry. 

*1863, June 11, Lafourche, La. 

1842. 

Rev. Cyrus Brewster, Hospital Chaplain U. S. A. 


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1844. 

*Rev. John S. Whittlesey, Chaplain 11th Iowa Infantry. 

*1862, April, Durant, Iowa. 

1847. 

Rev. John D. Sands, Chaplain, Iowa. 

1857. 

*Rev. Jacob Eaton, Chaplain 7 th Conn. Infantry. 

*1865, March 20, Wilmington, N. C. 

1858. 

Rev. Alvah L. Frisbie, (Amherst College, 1857,) Chaplain 20th Conn. Infantry. 

1862. 

Rev. James H. Bradford, Chaplain 12th Conn. Infantry. 

Leicester J. Sawyer, Private 21th Conn. Infantry. 

1863. 

Rev. John D. Jones, (Hamilton College, 1861,) Chaplain 111th N. Y. Infantry. 
Rev. Selah Merrill, Chaplain 49th U. S. Colored Infantry. 


LAW DEPARTMENT. 

1830. 

[* James S. Wadsworth, Brig. General U. S. Y. 

*1864, May 8, “ the Wilderness,” Va.] 

1846. 

William B. Wooster, Colonel 29th Conn. Colored Infantry. 

1848. 

Dexter R. Wright, (Wesleyan University, 1845,) Colonel 15th Conn. Infantry. 

1849. 

[Alfred H. Terry, Col. Ith Conn. Inf., Brig. Gen. U. S. A., Major General U. S. V.] 

1853. 

Nathan Upham. 

[Nathaniel Smith, Lieut. Colonel 2d Conn. Heavy Artillery.] 

1859. 

[Richard H. Chittenden, Captain, Minnesota. 

*William McC. Smith, 2d Lieut. 132d N. Y. Infantry.] 

*1865, March 24, San Francisco, Cal.] 

1860. 

H. Lynde Harrison, Quartermaster 27th Conn. Infantry. 

Thomas H. Merry, N. Y. Cavalry. 

William C. Page, Hospital Steward, 5th N. Y. Cavalry. 

[*William Silliman, Captain 124th N. Y. Infantry, Colonel 26th U. S. Col’d Inf. 
*1864, Dec. 17, Beaufort, S. C.] 


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1861. 

Timothy F. Neville, R. I. Cavalry. 

[*Edwin B. Cross, 2d Lieut. 27th Conn. Infantry. 
*1863, Aug. 1, New Haven, Conn] 

1862. 

Samuel T. Birdsall, Captain 27th Conn. Infantry. 

1863. 

Joseph G. Morton, A. A. Paymaster U. S. N. 

Lucius B. Tuttle, A. A. Paymaster U. S. N. 

1864. 

Isaac W. Cooke, Sergeant 3d Conn. Infantry 
DeWitt C. Sprague, 1st Lieut. 27th Conn. Infantry. 
[William E. Simonds, 2d Lieut. 25th Conn. Infantry.] 

1865. 

Silas W. Geis, Penn. Militia. 


MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 

1815. 

Prof. Jared P. Kirtland, LL. D., Examining Surgeon, Ohio. 

1817. 

*Melinus C. Leavenworth, Assistant Surgeon 12th Conn. Infantry. 
*1862, Nov. 16, near New Orleans, La. 

1829. 

James B. Coleman, Brigade Surgeon. 

Horace C. Gillette, Surgeon. 

1831. 

Alexander LeB. Monroe, Acting Assistant Surgeon, U. S. V. 

Richard H. Salter, Surgeon 1st Mass. Infantry. 

1836. 

Michael D. Benedict, Surgeon 75th N. Y. Infantry. 

Benjamin F. Harrison, Surgeon Independent Battalion N. Y. Infantry. 
Henry W. Hough, Assistant Surgeon 18th Conn. Infantry. 

1840. 

Prof. Pliny A. Jewett, (Trinity College, 1837,) Surgeon U. S. Y. 

1844. 

Edwin C. Bidwell, (Williams Coll., 1841,) Surgeon 31st Mass. Infantry. 
Henry LeW. Burritt, Surgeon U. S. Y. 

1845. 

William H. Rossell, Captain 10th U. S. Infantry. 


96 


1846. 

Josiah M. Beecher, Private 1st Conn. Artillery. 

*DeWitt C. Lathrop, Assistant Surgeon 8th Conn. Infantry. 

*1862, April 18, Newbern, N. C. 

1849. 

Moses H. Perkins, Assistant Surgeon 15th Conn. Infantry. 

1851. 

Orlando Brown, Surgeon 29th Mass. Infantry. 

Francis C. Greene, Assistant Surgeon 30th Mass. Infantry. 

Robert Hubbard, Surgeon 17 th Conn. Infantry. 

Matthew T. Newton, Surgeon 10th Conn. Iufantry. 

■William Soule, Surgeon 21st Conn. Infantry. 

1853. 

Prof. Francis Bacon, Surgeon 7th Conn. Infantry, Surgeon U. S. V. 
*Rausom P. Lyon, Surgeon 28th Conn. Infantry. 

*1863, Aug. 6, Port Hudson, La. 

1854. 

Horatio N. Howard, Assistant Surgeon 10th Me. Infantry. 

1855. 

Edwin G. Sumner, Assistant Surgeon 21st Conn. Infantry. > 

William H. Trowbridge, Surgeon 23d Conn. Infantry. 

1856. 

Edward Buikley, Assistant Surgeon 6th Conn. Infantry. 

Elijah Gregory, Assistant Surgeon 17th Conn. Infantry. 

Samuel B. Shepard, Assistant Surgeon 7th Conn. Infantry. 

1857. 

George Clary, (Dartmouth College, 1852.) Surgeon 13th Conn. Infantry. 
Cortlandt Y R. Creed, Assistant Surgeon 30th Conn. Iufantry. 

Ozias W. Peck, A. A. Surgeon. 

Samuel R. Wooster, Assistant Surgeon 8th Mich. Infantry. 

1859. 

Frederick L. Dibble, Surgeon 6th Conn. Infantry. 

John W. Lawton, Assistant Surgeon 2d Conn. Artillery. 

J. Hamilton Lee, Surgeon 21st Conn. Infantry. 

1860. 

*Lewis H. Ailing, Surgeon. 

David C. Aney. 

Abel C. Benedict, Surgeon U. S. Y. 

Evelyn L. Bissell, Surgeon 5tli Conn. Infantry. 

Nelson G. Hall, Surgeon. 

Aaron S. Oberly, Surgeon U. S. N. 

*John B. Welch, Assistant Surgeon 12th Conn. Infantry, 

*1862, Feb. 13. 


97 


1861. 

George W. Avery, Assistant Surgeon 9th Conn Inf., Surg. 1st N. 0. Vols. 
Neilson A. Baldwin, (Lafayette College,) Surgeon 113d N. Y. Infantry. 

James A. Bigelow, Surgeon 8th Conn. Infantry. 

Elmore C. Hine, Assistant Surgeon 1th Conn. Infantry. 

Henry A. Hoyt, Assistant Surgeon 6th Conn. Infantry. 

Joel W. Hyde, Ass’t Surgeon 29th Conn. Infantry, A. A. A. G. and Judge Adv. 
Samuel McClellan, Assistant Surgeon 13th Conn. Infantry. 

Samuel H. Olmstead, Surgeon 110th N. Y. Infantry. 

Henry Plumb, Surgeon 2d Conn. Artillery. 

Horace P. Porter, Surgeon 10th Conn. Infantry. 

Ebenezer Witter, Hospital Steward 1st Conn. Cavalry. 

1862. 

Frederick A. Dudley, Surgeon 14th Conn. Infantry. 

♦Nathaniel W. French, Assistant Surgeon 50th Mass. Infantry. 

*1863, April 21, Baton Rouge, La. 

Robert G. Hassard, Assistant Surgeon 2d Conn. Artillery. 

Jairus F. Lines, Assistant Surgeon 12th Conn. Infantry. 

Rollin McNeil, Surgeon 9th Conn. Infantry. 

J. Wadsworth Terry, Surgeon 20th Conn. Infantry. 

William H. Thomson. 


1863. 

Thomas M. Hills, Assistant Surgeon 21th Conn. Infantry. 

William C. Minor, A. A. Surgeon U. S. A. 

Charles J. Tennant, Assist. Surg. 21st Conn. Inf. 

Frederick S. Treadway, Assist. Surg. 21th Conn, and 15th N. Y. Infantry. 
Charles S. Ward, Assistant Surgeon U. S. A. 

1864. 

Augustus H. Abernethy, Assistant Surgeon U. S. N. 

J. Knight Bacon, A. A. Surgeon, U. S. N. 

John D. Brundage. 

Durell Shepard, Private 1st Conn. Heavy Artillery. 

Henry S. Turrill, Assistant Surgeon 11th Conn. Infantry. 

1865. 

Herbert M. Bishop, Assistant Surgeon 1st Conn. Cavalry. 

George B. Durrie, Corporal 21th Conn. Infantry. 

Malcolm Macfarlan, Medical Cadet U. S. A. 

Henry A. Page, Assistant Surgeon 10th Conn. Infantry. 

1866—7. 

[Rev. Thomas Drumm, Chaplain U. S. A. 

Cornelius J. DuBois, Captain 21th Conn. Infantry. 

Thomas T. Minor, A. A. Surgeon, U. S. A.] 

8 


98 


DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE ARTS. 

1836 . 

[W. McKee Dunn, Major and Judge Advocate, U. S. V.] 

1843 . 

[Charles H. Rockwell, Captain and A. Q. M. H. S. V.] 

1850 . 

[William S. Hillyer, Col. and A. D. C. Gen. Grant.] 

1852 . 

Mason C. Weld, Lieut. Colonel 25th Conn. Infantry. 

1853 . 

Benjamin C. Jillson, M. D., Surgeon U. S. V. 

1854 . 

*John A. Duvillard, 1st Lieut. 12th U. S. Infantry. 

*1865, May 8, Fort Hamilton, N. Y. 

1855 . 

[Lewis M. Dayton, Brig. Gen. and A. A. G. on Gen. Sherman’s Staff. 

William C. Gilman, Private 22d N. G. S. N. Y. 

Prof. Charles H. Porter, M. D., Surg. U. S. V.] 

1858 . 

John D. Wheeler, Captain 15th Conn. Infantry. 

[*Arthur H. Dutton, (West Point, 1861,) Col. 21st Ct. Inf., Capt. Engineers U. S. A. 
*1864, June 5. Baltimore, Md., (wounded at Bermuda Hundred).] 

1859 . 

Henry A. DuBois, Jr., M. D., Assistant Surgeon U. S. A. 

S. Douglas Twining, M. D., A. A Surgeon U. S. A. 

1860 . 

Clifford Coddington, Captain 51st N. Y. Infantry. 

Edwin Hutchinson, M. D., Surgeon 137th N. Y. Inf., Assistant Surgeon U. S. V. 
Joseph A. Rogers, Private 27th Conn. Infantry. 

1861 . 

Carrington H. Raymond, Major and A. A. G., U. S. V. 

[Hezekiah Bissell, Lieut. Conn. Infantry.] 

1862 . 

[*Henry Y. D. Stone, Lieut. 2d Mass. Infantry. 

*1863, July 3, Gettysburg, Penn. 

William F. West, Captain N. Y. (Ironsides).] 

1864 . 

Henry D. Tiffany, Private 7th N. Y. S. N. G. (30 days.) 

Arthur Yan Harlingen, Penn. Militia, (30 days). 

[Eugene S. Bristol, 1st Lieut. 29th Conn. Colored Infantry. 


99 


*Nathan L. C. Brown, Private 44th Mass. Infantry. 
*1863, Aug. 6, Boston, Mass. 

Henry S. Manning, Lieut. Colored Cavalry. 

Martin Van Harlingen, Penn. Militia, (30 days).] 

1865 . 

James B. Stone, Musician N. J. Infantry. 

John H. Treadwell, Ensign U. S. 1ST. 

1866 - 8 . 

[Volney G-. Barbour, Corporal 5th Conu. Infantry. 
Herbert C. Belden, Private Mass. Infantry. 

Robert L. Crooke, Private, N. Y. 

Dudley C. Haskell, Private, Kansas. 

James A. McDonald, Private 37th N. Y. Infantry. 
G-eorge B. Pumpelly, Private Berdan’s Sharpshooters. 
Joseph P. Rockwell, Captain 18th Conn. Infantry.] 




Of those serving in other than a military or naval position, (whose names, if 
added, would sensibly increase the above list,) the three following, who sacrificed 
their lives in the discharge of duty, especially deserve commemoration. 


ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT. 

1847 . 

*Prof. Henry H. Hadley, Sanitary Commission, 

*1864, Aug. 1, Washington, D. C. 

1859 . 

*Duniel Bowe, Boston Educational Commission, 

*1862, Oct. 30, New York City. 

1864 . 

* Daniel L. Coit, Sanitary Commission, 

*1865, June 1, Norwich, Conn. 


Of the whole number of deaths thus far recorded, (109), it is believed that at least 
106 were the direct results of active service. 





SUMMARY. 


Graduates. 



Living. 

Dead. 

Total. 

Academical Department, _ 

396 

58 

454 

Theological “ 

.7 

3 

10 

Law “ _ 

13 


13 

Medical “ 

. 56 

4 

60 

Philosophical “ _ 

13 

1 

14 


Graduates, 485 

66 

551 


Non-Graduates. 


Academical Department, . 

142 

33 

175 

Law “ . 

_' 4 

4 

8 

Medical “ _____ 

3 


3 

Philosophical “ _ _ 

_ 18 

3 

21 


— 

— 

— 

Non-graduates, 

Total, including graduates and non-graduates, 

167 

40 

207 

758 


ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 

p. 12, bottom line, for Matthew Grant, read Noah Grant, 
p. 81, Class of 1851, David B. Greene, add 
* 1863, Jan. 11, Arkansas Post, 
p. 81, Class of 1852, George S. Mygatt, add 
*1866, Jan. 3, Cleveland, Ohio, 
p. 84, Class of 1856, Horton R. Platt, add 

1st Lieut. 6th New York State Heavy Artillery. 

*1864, May 23, Spottsylvania Court House, Va. 
p. 84. Class of 1857, insert 

Rev. Charles B. Dye, Paymaster and Chaplain, U. S. N. 






litTIDIEZX: 


TO 


THE ROLL OF HONOR. 




Members of the Theological , Law , Medical , and Philosophical Departments are 
denoted by the letters l, l, to, and p, respectively. 

All non-graduates appear in brackets. 


1835 Abbott, Josiah 

1864 Abernethy, A. H. to 

1825 John J. 

1862 Adams, A. Egerton 

1849 Enoch G. 

1821 John R. 

1863 [Alden, William H.] 

1854 Alexander, Chas. T. 

1862 Ira R. 

1855 Allen, Charles J. F. 

1863 George W. 

1865 [ George W.] 

1865 [Ailing, Franklin E.] 
1860 Lewis H. to 

1864 [Ames, William P.] 
1855 Andrews, Judson B. 
1860 Aney, David C. to 
1863 [Appleton, Samuel] 
1863 'Arms, Charles J.] 
1849 Arnold, Edward A. 

1860 George W. 
1863 Atherton, George W. 
1851 Atlee, William A. 

1863 [Atwater, Howell] 

1864 [Austin, William M.] 
1840 Averill, James t 

1861 Avery, George W. m 

1855 William L. 

1868 [Ayres, Russell W.] 
1861 [Babcock, Heman P.] 
1832 Backus, William W. 
1853 Bacon, Francis to 
1864 J. Knight to 

1853 Theodore 

1863 [ Theodore C.] 

1858 William P. 

1859 [Badger, George] 

1859 [ William] 

1853 Baer, Benjamin F. 


1863 Baird, George W. 
1850 Baldwin, A. DeWitt 
1809 Burr 

1853 George W. 

1861 NeilsonA.m 

1862 [Ball, William W.] 
1868 [Ballantine, Geo. D.] 

1852 Bannan, Douglass 

1861 John N. 

1866 [Barbour,Yoln’yG.]jo 

1865 [Barnard, Edward L.] 
1860 Barnes, Henry E. 
1857 Barrows, Edwin 

1856 Bartholomew, Nelson 
1833 Bates, Samuel H. 

1862 Beard, George M. 

1863 [Beckwith, HenryN.] 

1846 Beecher, Josiah H. w 
1849 Sheldon C. 

1866 [Belden, HerbertC.]p 

1857 Theodore W.E. 
1855 [Bemis.Frederick A.] 

1860 Benedict, Abel C. to 

1849 George 

1836 Michael D. to 

1836 [Benham, Henry W.] 

1858 Bennett, William C. 
1844 Bidwell, Edwin C. to 

1861 Bigelow, James A. to 

1862 Birdsall, Samuel T. I 

1841 [Birney, William] 
1868 [ William H.] 

1853 Bishop, Albert W. 

1863 Edward G. 

1865 Herbert M. to 

1860 Bissell, Evelyn L. to 
1865 Josiah H. 

1841 [Blair, Francis P.] 
1858 Blake, Edward F. 


1863 Blakeslee, Erastus 

1852 Bliss, Charles M. 

1863 Bloom, Harvey H. 

1859 Boardman, Charles H. 
1862 Bockee, Jacob S. 

1861 Bonney, George B. 

1862 Bosworth,Francke H. 
1862 Bowe, Isaac 

1821 Boyd, John 

1862 Bradford, James H. t 

1860 Bradley, William E. 

1860 W. Lockwood 

1859 Brainerd, Thomas C. 
1866 [Brand, James] 

1859 Breed, Henry L. 

1842 Brewster, Cyrus t 
1858 Brinton, Daniel G. 

1844 John F. 

1854 Bristol, Bennett J. 

1864 [ Eugene S.]_p 

1860 Bristoll, William M. 

1853 [Bromley, Isaac H.] 

1863 [Brown. Gerard C.] 

1861 Hubert S. 

1862 James F. 

1856 John M. 

1864 [ Nath. L.C.]^) 

1851 Orlando to 

1858 Orlando 

1860 Richard B. 

1859 [Brooks, William P.] 
1864 Brundage, John D. to 
1850 Brush, William 
1858 [Buckelew, Fred. L.] 
1856 Bulkeley, Charles E. 
1856 Bulkley, Edward to 

1861 Milton 

1863 Bull, Cornelius W. 

1855 Bumstead, Nath’l. W. 







102 


1858 [Burlock, Fretl’k F.] 

1854 Burnham, JedidiahK. 

1853 Burr, Hudson 

1844 Burritt, H’y LeW. m 

1861 [Burt, Andrew S.] 

1859 Pitts H. 

1857 Butler, Francis E. 

1866 [ Henry] 

1863 John H. 

1858 Caldwell. Samuel 

1860 Camp, Henry W. 

1859 Carrington, Edward 

1845 Henry B. 

1862 Carter, Buel C. 

1833 Carver, Robert 

1846 Case, Henry 

1859 Catlin, Benjamin S. 

1860 George L. 

1858 Chalmers, Matthew 

1862 Chamberlain,Dan’l H. 

1863 LeanderT. 

1861 Robert L. 

1857 Chamberlin, Myron N 
1852 Chapin, Lebeus C. 
1846 Chester, George E. 
1861 [ Walter T.] 

1855 Chittenden, Henry T. 

] 859 [ Rich’d H.] I 

1857 Christman, JosephA. 
1842 Clapp, Alexander H. 

1859 [Clark. Thomas R.] 

1861 William B. 

1864 Clarke, Albert B. 

1855 I. Edwards 

1854 J. Tillotson 

1865 James W. 
1857 Clary, George m 
1832 Clay, Cassius M. 

1859 Green 
1868 [Coats, John] 

1860 Coddington, Clifford^ 
1829 Cogswell, Mason F. 

1828 Coit, Gurdon S. , 

1829 Coleman, James B. m 

1860 Colton, Frederick H. 
1859 Comstock, Apollos 

1856 Condit, Stephen 

1855 Cone, Elijah 

1864 [Conner, Charles H.] 

1846 Conyngham, John B. 

1861 Cook, William 
1864 Cooke, Isaac W. I 

1847 Coon, John 
1852 Cooper, Jacob 
1839 [Cowles, David S.] 

1856 Edward O. 

1835 Cox, Christopher C. 
1851 Crampton, Rufus C. 
1844 Crane, Charles H. 
1838 James B. 

1857 Creed, Cortl’dtV.R.m 


1866 

1861 

1857 

1840 

1854 
1862 
1838 

1859 

1864 

1860 

1855 
1857 
1868 
1861 
1863 
1847 
1861 
1836 
1862 

1856 

1853 

1859 
1843 
1835 
1833 
1867 

1860 

1835 
1840 
1863 

1857 
1849 
1857 
1866 
1866 

1859 
1852 
1862 

1857 
1862 

1836 
1832 

1865 

1858 

1860 
1857 

1854 
1854 
1852 

1859 
1857 
1867 
1854 

1860 
1857 
1842 
1862 
1814 
1861 
1852 
1836 


"Crooke, Robert L.] p 
"Cross, Edwin B.] I 
Croxton, John T. 
Curtis, Josiali 
Cutler, Carroll 
[Cuvier, James W.] 
Dana, Edmund L. 
Darrach, William B. 
Davis, George P.] 
Samuel H.] 
Dayton, Lewis M.] p 
DeForest, Henry S. 

; John K. H.] 

Moulton 
Newton] 
Othniel 
Delp, George 
Deming, Henry C. 
[Denniston, Hen. M.] 
James O. 
Wm. S. 
Dibble, Fred’k L. m 
Dill, James H. 

Dimon, Theodore 
Doane, Hiram 
[Dodd, Ira S.] 
[Dodge, Charles C.] 
John Y. 
Richard Y. 
Doolittle, John B. 
Doster, William E. 
Douglas, George 
Drake, Albert W. 
[Drumm, Thomas] m 
[DuBois, Corn. J.] m 
Henry A. p 
John C. 

Dudley. Fred’k A. m 
Duer, Edward L. 
Duubar, James A. 
[Dunn, W. McKee] p 
Dunning, Edward O. 
Durrie, George B. m 
[Dutton, Arth’rH.]jp 
Clarence E. 
Henry M. 

Duvillard, John A. p 
[Dwight, Aug. W.] 
James H. 
Thomas B 
Dye, Charles B. 
[Eastburn, George] 
Eastman, William R. 
Eaton, Daniel C. 
Jacob t 
Samuel W. 
Sherburne B. 
Edwards, David S. 
Egleston, William C. 
Elderkin, John 
Ellsworth, Pinck’y W 


1862 

1843 

1867 

1863 

1851 

1852 
1866 


Ely, Charles W. 

Isaac M. 

[Emerson, Brown H.] 
Thomas A. 
Sstabrook, James A. 
Este, William M.] 
Evarts, Charles B.] 


1865 Ewell, John L. 

1855 Ewing, Martin B. 
1850 Farnham, William T. 
1859 Faulkner, Lester B. 

1861 Faxon, William C. 

1856 Fellowes, Frank 

1862 [Ferrell, Joseph L.] 

1859 [Ferris, George T.] 
1844 Ferry, Orris S. 

1861 [Field, Edward] 

1864 Fifield, Charles W. 

1860 Finney, Edgar A. 
1859 Fisher, George] 

1859 [Fitzhugh, Cha’s L.] 

1861 Robert H. 

1863 [Fletcher, Leonard] 
1861 Flint, Joseph N. 

1844 Foote, Thaddeus 

1859 [Fosdick, Wood] 

1860 Foster, William E. 
1868 [Fowler, Benjamin A.] 


1863, 

1860 

1847 

1858 

1862 

1858 

1860 

1865 

1858 

1860 

1865 

1865 

1860 

1843 

1829 

1855 
1861 
1861 
1857 
1838 

1865 
1863 

1866 
1860 
1851 

1851 
1853 
1862 
1867 

1856 
1865 
1862 

1852 


Horace W. 
William 
Franklin, Emlen 

George M. 
French, Nath’l W. m 
Frisbie, Alvah L. t 
Furbish, Edward B. 
Gaines, Marshall R. 
Gerrard. Jeptha 
Gaul, Edward L. 
Gaylord, Charles H. 
Geis, Silas W. I 
Giddings, George W. 
[Gilbert, Charles C.] 
Gillette, Horace C. m 
[Gilman, William C.] p 
[Glenney, Samuel C.] 
[Gould, James R.] 
Grant, James H. 

Joel 

Robert E.] 
William G.] 
Graves, James T.] 
Green, George W.] 
Greene, David B.] 
Francis C. m 
Jeremiah E. 
Richard H. 
[Greenwood. Tlios.] 
Gregory, Elijah m 
Griffin. Chas. DeF.] 
Griffith, John H.] 
Griswold, Charles A. 










103 


1857 Griswold, John 

1844 Wait R. 

1852 Grube, Franklin 
1860 Haight, David L. 

1862 Hale, Eben T. 

1860 Hall, Henry L. 

1860 Nelson G. to 

1859 William K. 

1859 [Hamilton, Frank B.] 

1850 Hand, Channeey M. 

1859 Hannahs, Diodate C. 

1861 Haradon, Amasa F. 

1853 Harland, Edward 

1851 Harlow, William T. 
1855 Harmar, JosiahW. 

1845 Harrington, Geo. D. 

1836 Harrison, Benj. F. m 

1860 H. Lynde l 
1866 [Hartwell, Chas. F.] 

1866 [Haskell, Dud’y C.] p 

1862 Hassard, Robt. G. to 
1851 Hastings, George G. 

1859 Hatch, Charles H. 

1837 Hawley, James A. 

1833 Zerah K. 

1865 [Hayden, Edw’d W.] 
1851 Hayes, Charles G. 

1858 [Hayner, Herrick] 
1840 Head, John F. 

1855 [Heath, William S.] 

1860 Hebard, Daniel 

1867 [Hedge, Thomas] 

1863 [Heller, F. Kern] 

1862 [Hemenway, Dan.E. 

1860 [Hervey, James W. 
1857 Hickox, Volney 

1868 [Hicks, Loren L.] 

1861 Higbee, William H. 
1861 Higgins, Anthony 

1864 Thomas] 
1868 Hill, Beach] 

1866 [Hiller, Allen M.] 

1863 Hills, Thomas M. m 
1850 [Hillyer, Wm. S.] p 

1859 Hinckley, Edward S. 

1859 Henry R. 

1861 Hine, Elmore C. to 

1854 Hitchcock, Elizur 

1848 Henry 

1857 Holden, Stephen 

1853 Holmes. Theodore J. 
1850 Horton, Benjamin J. 
1836 Hough, Henry W. to 

1862 House, William W. 

1855 Howard, Hiram L 

1854 Horatio N. to 

1860 John 
1854 Howland, Henry E. 

1861 Hoyt, Henry A to 

1862 Hubbard, C. Eustis 

1843 Joseph S 


1851 Hubbard, Robert to 
1855 VanBuren 

1858 Hubbell, William S 
1853 Hudson, William M. 

1859 [Huggins, Edwd. C.] 

1843 Huntington, Cyrus 
1855 David L 

1843 John M. 

1818 Hurlbut, Joseph 

1860 Wm. H. 
1849 Hutchins, Charles J. 

1860 Hutchinson, Edwin p 

1861 Hyde, James N. 

1861 ‘ Joel W. to 

1855 Simeon T. 

1863 Ingersoll Henry H. 

1858 Ingerson, William F. 
1861 Ives, Bray ton 

1863 Wilbur 

1857 Jackson, Joseph C. 
1840 James, Horace 

1861 [Jenkins, Horatio] 

1864 Jessup, Huntting C. 

1860 [ Samuel] 

1849 William H. 

1840 Jewett, Pliny A. to 

1853 Jillson, Benj. C. p 
1860 Johnson, Plenry L. 

1862 Johnston, Henry P. 

1860 William C. 

1859 Jones, Frank J. 

1823 George 

1 853 John A. W. 

1863 John D. t 

1861 Walter F. 

1838 Key, Thomas M. 

1863 Keyes, Edward L 

1863 [Kimball, Tho’s D.] 

1864 [ William A.] 

1861 Kinney, John C 

1862 Kirby, Thomas B. 
1815 Kirtland, Jared P. to 
1862 Kitchel, Cornelius L. 

1856 Kittredge, William T. 

1864 [Knapp, Obadiali M.] 
1847 Kutz, Henry C. 

1842 Larned, Sylvester 
1846 Lathrop, DeWitt C.to 

1854 [Latimer, C. Clinton] 

1859 Lawton, John W. to 

1857 Learned, Bela P. 
1817 Leavenworth,M. C.to 
1859 Lee, J. Hamilton to 

1865 Leonard, Charles H. 

1862 Lewis, Charles H. 
1864 George F. 

1868 George H.] 

1868 ^ John] 

1862 William B ] 

1862 Lines, Jairus F. to 
I 1854 Lord, George DeF. 


1859 Lounsbury, Thos. R. 

1865 [Loveridge, R. C.] 
1859 [Lnsk, William T ] 
1859 Lyman, Charles N. 

1855 Lyon, Alex’r McD. 

1861 Isaac S. 

1853 Ransom P. to 
1861 McClellan, Samuel m 

1861 McClintock, Oliver 

1862 Walter L. 
1862 [McClurg, William] 

1854 [McConihe, John] 

1862 McCord, William R. 
1852 McCormick, Henry 

1866 [McDonald, Jas.A.]p 

1858 McDowell, Wm. A. 
1865 Macfarlan,Malcolm w 

1856 Mclntire, Henry M. 

1859 [McKibbin, Rob’t P.] 
1861 McKinney, Edw’d P. 

1861 McLane. Janies W. 
1839 [McLellau, Fran. M. 

1863 McMasterZalmonJ. 

1859 McMurtrie, Rudolph 

1852 [McNeil, H Watson] 

1862 Rollin to 
1862 McVeagh, Franklin 

1853 Wayne 

1858 Magill, William A. 
1850 Mallery, Garrick 

1862 Maltzberger,Harrison 

1864 [Manning,Henry S.]p 
1850 Manross, Newton S. 

1867 [Marks, Constant R ] 
1845 Marsh, John T. 

1860 Marshall, Henry G. 

1857 James 

1861 John E. 

1859 Mather, William H. 

1858 Mathewson, Arthur 

1863 [Matteson, Fred. W.] 
1856 [Mead, Daniel M.] 

1859 [Meconkey, Elb. F.] 

1861 Merrill, Charles G. G. 

1865 Payson 

1863 Selah t 
1844 Merritt, Joseph K. 

1860 Merry, Thomas H. I 

1864 [Merwin,GarwoodR/ 
1856 [ Samuel T. C/ 

1858 Miles, Daniel A. 

1865 [Miller, Franklin] 

1864 Matthew M.] 

1862 William H.] 

1864 'Mills, Charles C.] 
1856 Lewis E. 

1866 [Minor, Thomas T.]to 

1863 William C. to 

1854 [Mitchell, Alfred] 
1831 Monroe, Alex.LeB. m 

1859 Moore, John C. W. 

















104 


1838 [Morris, Dwight] 

1860 John M. 

1858 Robert 

1863 [ Robert C.] 

1863 Morton, Joseph G-. I 
1856 [Moulthrop. Sid’yA.] 

1859 Moulton, Daniel S.] 
1850 Muhlenberg, Edward 

1850 Mulford, Sylvanus S. 
1852 Mygatt, George S. 
1S63 [Neide, Carroll] 

1858 Horace 
1856 Nettleton, Edward P. 

1861 Neville, Timothy F. I 

1831 Newell, Chester 

1859 Newton, Horner G. 

1818 Joel W. 

1852 Matth. T, m 

1853 Nicholas, Thomas P. 

1825 Nichols, Joseph H. 
1859 [Nicoll, AugustusW.] 

1851 Noble, John W. 

1832 Wm, H. 


1858 [Norcutt. Allison H.] 

1859 Norton, Charles L. 
1847 Noyes, Daniel T. 
1849 Oakey, John 

1860 Oberly, Aaron S. m 

1860 Ogden. Frederick C. 

1861 Olmstead, Sam’lH. m 
1863 [Orth, Harry L.] 

1863 Osgood, James S.] 

1835 Oviatt, George A. 
1860 Owen, Charles H. 
1865 Page, Henry A. m 

1860 William C l 
1841 Paine, Albert 
1854 Palmer, William H. 

1847 Parker, Edward G. 

1864 [Parkman, Chas. B ] 
1863 [Parmelee, Uriah N.] 

1865 [Parsons, Albert R.J 

1860* John R. 

1840 Lewis B. 

1863 [Partridge, Chas. A.] 
1863 [Payne, Oliver PI.] 

1861 Payson, Edward P. 

1856 Pease, George E. H. 
1856 Peck, Frank H 
1839 Horace C. 

1858 Peirce, Luther IP. 
1849 Perkins, MosesPI. m 

1848 Samuel C. 

1858 Thomas A. 

1854 Pettibone. Ira W. 
1860 Phelps, George D. 

1855 Piatt, John H. 

1855 Pierce, Granville T. 
1804 Pierpont, John 
1868 [Pierson, Stephen] 

1836 William S. 


BD 206 


1856 [Platt, Horton R,.] 
1861 Plumb, Henry m 

1855 [Porter, Charles H.] p 

1857 Edward L. 

1861 Horace P. m 

1864 [ Thomas A.] 

1860 Post, Isaac J. 

1859 Truman A. 

1854 Potter, Leander H. 
1837 Pratt, Ambrose 

1867 [ Edwin C.] 

1858 Electus A. 

,1858 Henry A. 

1861 James P. 

1856 Price, John T. 

1864 Pugsley, Isaac P. 
1866 [Pumpelly, Geo. B.]|> 
1864 [Randall. John F.] 

1861 Raymond, C. H. p 
1845 Redfield, James 
1848 Reynolds, Charles O. 

1854 Rice, James C. 

1859 William H. 
1858 Richards, Channing 

1856 Richardson, David P. 

1858 Riley, Isaac 

1862 Ripley, George C. 

1868 [Robbins, Thos. H.] 
1862 [Robert, Charles S.] 

1857 Roberts, George W. 

1861 [ Oliver A.] 

1859 William J. 
1852 Robinson, Samuel C. 

1855 Rockwell. Alfred P. 

1843 [ Chas. H] p 

1866 [ Jos. P.] p 

1844 Rogers, Charles H. 

1860 Joseph A. p 
1852 Root, Nathand W. T. 
1852 Ross, William B. 

1845 Rossell, William H.w 

1862 Rowe, Charles H. 

1858 Royer, Henry 

1842 Runyon Theodore 
1858 [Russell, Charles H.] 
1868 [ Fred T k W.] 

1863 [Sallade, Madison] 
1852 Salter, Charles C. 

1831 Richard H. m 

1847 Sands, John D. t 
1863 [Sanford, George B.] 
1862 Sawyer, Leicester J. t 

1861 Schmucker Francis R. 

1860 Schneider, James IP. 

1861 Schoonmaker, S. F. 

1858 Scott, Eben G. 

1860 [ Kidder M.] 

1859 [Searle, Daniel W.] 
1868 [Sears, Joseph II.] 
1855 Seely, Franklin A. 

1862 Shearer, Albert B. 


1844 Sheldon, James A. 

1861 Winthrop D. 
1840 Shelton, Charles S. 
1864 Shepard, Durell m 

1856 Sam’lB. m 

1862 Shiverick, Andrew F. 
1854 [Shurtleff, Wm. S.] 

1860 [Silliman, William] l 

1864 [Simonds, Wm. E.] I 

1861 [Skelding, Thomas] 

1862 Skinner, Richard 

1842 Samuel W. 

1854 Slade, Francis H. 
1867 [Smith Benjamin] 

1865 Charles E. 

1851 David P. 

1858 George F. 

1839 L. Ward. 

1852 Moses - 

1853 [ Nathaniel] l 

1863 [ William F.] 

1859 [ Wm. McC.] I 

1858 [Smyser. Jacob H.] 

1851 Soule, William m 

1857 South wick, War renK. 

1854 Sparrow, Orson C. 
1853 Spooner, Samuel B. 

1864 Sprague, DeWitt C. 1 
1867 [ Franklin M.] 

1852 Homer B. 

1859 Stanton, Alex’r H. 

1861 Charles T. 

1862 [Stanwood. Frank] 
1862 [Starr, Grosvenor] 

1860 Pierre S. 

1837 Stearns, Charles W. 

1853 Henry P. 
1862 Sterling, Francis N. 

1858 [Stevens, Eugene R.] 

1858 Fred’k W. 

1862 [Stewart, Edwin] 
1856 Stickney, John B. 

1851 Stiles, R. Cresson 

1864 [Stille, Henry M.] 

1863 Stimson, Lewis A. 

1861 Stocking Gilbert M. 

1865 William 
1837 Stone, Andrew L. 

1862 [ Henry Y. D.] p 

1865 James B. p 

1852 Storrs, Melanchthon 

1855 Stuart, George 

1831 James C. 

1862 Sumner, Charles B. 

1855 Edwin G. m 

1856 Swayne, Wager 
1860 [Sweet, Wm. H. S.] 
1852 Swift, Frederick B. 

1864 [Sylvester, Geo. P.] 

1865 [Taintor, Henry E.] 

1863 [Talcott, Arth. DeN.] 








105 


1859 Tatum, Joseph T. 

1828 Taylor, Fitch W. 

1844 Nathaniel W. 

1855 William H. 

1861 [Temple, William J.] 

1863 Tennant, Charles J. m 

1852 Terry Adrian 

1849 [ ' Alfred H.] I 

1862 J.Wadsw’th m 
1862 Thayer, Henry W. 

1857 Thomas, George B. 

1868 [ Nath. P. S.J 

1861 Thompson, HeberS. 

1865 [ John H.] 

1866 [ Jos. P.] 

1862 Thomson, Win. H. m 

1864 Tiffany, Henry D. p 
1868 [Timmerman, H. S.j 

1858 | Titus, Herbert B.] 

1858 Tomlinson, Charles 

1863 Treadway, Fred. S. m 

1865 Treadwell, George E 

1865 John H. p 

1855 Trowbridge, W. H.m 
1851 Tuckerman, Geo. S. 

1864 Turrill, Henry S. in 

1863 Tuttle, Lucius B. I 
1863 [ Moses II.] 

1859 Twichell, Joseph H. 

1859 Twining,S.Douglas p 
1858 Theodore W. 

1853 Tyler, Charles M 

1861 John C. 

1829 Ullmann, Daniel 
1853 Upham, Nathan l 
1849 Upson, Andrew 


1859 Upson, Henry 

1851 VanBlarcom, James 

1864 Van Harlingen. Ar. p 
1864 [ Martin^?] 

1863 [Verplanck,Abm. G.] 
1830 [Wadsworth, J. S.] I 

1853 Waite, Richard 

1845 Wales, Leonard E. 
1867 [Walker, Charles S.] 
1856 Edward A. 

1863 Ward, Charles S. in 
1863 Waterman, Henry B. 

1859 Watkins, Hezekiah 

1860 Way, Francis R. 

1863 Webster, Charles 

1861 John R. 

1843 Weeks, Hem*y A. 
1860 Welch, John Ik m 
1850 Moses C. 

1854 Weld, Lewis L. 

1852 Mason C. p 

1858 Wells, Gideon 

1859 [Wesson. George M.] 

1862 [West, William F.]j? 

1859 Wheeler, Charles M 

1858 John D. p 

1855 William 

1860 Xenophon 
1854 White, Erskine N. 

1861 James H. 

1864 Whitney, Henry M. 

1863 [ Stephen] 

1865 [ Wm M.] 

1853 [Wliittelsey, Chs. H.] 
1858 Whittlesey, Chas. B. 

1842 Eliphalet 


1844 Whittlese}’ - , John S. t 

1858 Wilbur, Albert B. 

1850 [Wilcox, James A.] 
1863 Wildman, Joel T. 

1855 Willets. Andrew J. 

1857 Willey, Nathan 
1831 Williams, Alpheus S. 
1852 [ George S ] 

1861 Ralph O. 

1860 Willson, Robert N. 

1859 Wilson, Charles P. 

1859 Winn Henry 

1830 [Winslow, Gordon] 
1863 [ Myron] 

i 1848 Winthrop, Theodore 

1851 Wm. W. 

1860 [Wiswell, Frank W.] 
1851 [Withington, Nat N.] 

1861 Witter, Ebenezer m 
1857 Wood, Ephraim M. 
1865 [ Jonathan D.] 

1854 [Woodford. Stew. L.] 

1849 Woodruff, Curtiss T. 
1863 [ Richard K.] 

1856 Woods, Samuel F. 

1845 William B. 

1855 Woodward,Stanley! 1 . 

1857 Wooster, Sam! R. in 

1846 Wm. B. I 

1863 Worman, Amos 
1861 George 

1860 Worthington, Lew. S. 
1848 Wright, Dexter R. I 
1868 [ Henry P.] 

1863 Young, Thomas 


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